After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simple are

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

Don’t try to make anyone like you. Work on you and the right people will be drawn to you. Mind games consume energy that could have been used on something more productive and fulfilling.

Perfectionism, of course, was something which even as a young man he had come to see as the innermost essence of talent.

He who dallies is a dastard, He who doubts is damned.

I like the idea of bringing cartoon characters to life... and although the Americans have already attempted this, their culture is not sufficiently humane to make it work.

Teach your children or your grandchildren Chinese. It is going to be the most important language of their lifetimes.

I was the son of a publican and a master builder. He ran the Empire Hotel in North Hobart. His name was Max, too. Big Max.

A fish probably has no means of apprehending the existence of water; it is too deeply immersed in it.

Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.

Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master.

Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.