Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only...

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

You know, I'm just not going to get into American politics.

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

You must have faith in God.

Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

What I've learned over the last 6 or 7 years, I would love to teach people. I still have a lot to share with people and especially within the US.

We need to build bridges between the LGBT community and the larger immigrant community. In the end, the bigger the tent we build, the more successful we'll be.

My mother used to tell me when I went somewhere, "Please leave your foolishness at home." But how could I do that? It was stuck on me.

A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.