But death is not freedom. For a moment, it can look like freedom. But then it's death. Anything. Something. Nothing.

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.

I was out of sorts. They are deep, my sorts, a deep ditch, and I am not often out of them.

Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, science works differently. Science is based on material elements at the core.

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

A babe is fed with milk and praise.

Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice.

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What I am doing is none of your business.'

Life without music is unthinkable.

Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.

Ducks are sweet, crows are intelligent; but I prefer dolphins because they are both sweet and intelligent.

What's wrong with technology is that it's not connected in any real way with matters of the spirit and of the heart. And so it does blind, ugly things quite by accident and gets hated for that.