And did I pass?" The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left the younger woman said, "You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.

I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

It has nothing to do with who I am as compared to everyone else. It has everything to do with who I am in companionship with God.

Changing your mind and your attitude can move you into what seems like another dimension.

I am very surprised by someone like Alexander Wang. I am amazed how he is good with fashion, with business, with public relations himself, with an attitude in his clothes that is spoken immediately.

In the Sagrada Familia, everything is providential.

Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.

I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

The heart does heal and you will love like this again- except when you do, you'll deny that you ever loved like this before.

When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.

You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!