Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one

Soul, if you want to learn secrets, 
your heart must forget about shame
 and dignity. You are God's lover, 
yet you worry what people are saying.

Be empty of worrying.Think of who created thought!Why do you stay in prisonWhen the door is so wide open?

Be melting snow.Wash yourself of yourself.

You have forgotten the Onewho doesn't care about ownership, who doesn't try to turn a profitfrom every human exchange.

There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope.The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.I don't plan it.When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

You are so weak. Give up to grace.The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore.You need more help than you know.

But that’s the trouble with moments—they end." ~Narrator

Does life has any value without love?

... sometimes in life, you either laugh or you cry. And I prefer to laugh.

With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.

The U.S. can no longer be the sheriff for the whole world. We can't be everywhere, and we can't always use military boots on the ground. We have to plan with people who have boots on the ground.

I hate it when people just downright copy. I hate it.

Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science

I went to Walter Reed hospital a couple of times to visit wounded soldiers, kids with no legs and one arm. You start to question some things.

If you're making a movie about the effects of time, you kind of have to engage time as the main character.