Even a falling star still shines.

I don’t want to be a person with full hands, resting from dreams, but a person full of dreams unable to rest his hands.

Maybe the start line was supposed to be your finish line. Don’t be afraid to walk backwards.

To be strong is to understand weakness. To be weak is to have fears. To have fears is to have something precious to you. To have something precious to you is to be strong.

Don't expect anything ordinary from me, i'm weird, and i like myself as i am

I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.

Some lessons are only delivered in the form of pain.

The star shines for everyone in the world, but in reality, it itself is surrounded in darkness.

Doesn't the world inside a black and white photograph seem more real? It's because the real world is losing its color

One reason why love songs are better than love itself is that you can replay them.

You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you

Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.

I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.

Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something.

I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language.

One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.

Thought is not merely expressed in words, it comes into existence through them

For people, 'here' signifies not merely a physical space, but also an historical space.

Have the end in mind and every day make sure your working towards it.

Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six

Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.