Falling in love is different for everyone.

Faith is the ability to endure.

Rationality and calm self-determination were one of the great illusions of the universe... in the end, we were all ruled by our passions.

Falling in love is more than infatuation. It is the need to feel whole, to feel safe, to be healed, to join together with someone, heart and soul.

Adversity does more than build character. It changes the way we see the world.

Albert Einstein was never clear if he believed in time travel, but had he raised a toddler, he certainly would have.

Your life can end at any time, and it can end more than once. But it can also begin more than once.

We are not strangers. It’s a lack of trust that keeps us separated.

In general men keep their internal lives–and their more complex emotions–closely guarded, because either they don't understand them or they are afraid of being betrayed by them.

Racism and inequality are likened to a fungus which grows in dark places and is all the more poisonous because one cannot see it.

We must believe we are capable of transcending evil, of not needing to hide in the darkness or surrender to our basest fears.

I likes me some ‘Shit Blows Up’ fiction, don’t get me wrong.

The illusion of choice is the greatest magic trick ever performed.

The people who build high, strong fences are the ones who survive the best. You deny that reality only at the risk of being driven into the wilderness yourself.

My most important identity now is as a mother.

I've always just been really interesting in humans, whether I knew it or not, back then. To be able to recreate that and express that was definitely something I wanted to do.

If you go into a room of 100-plus people, and you want to be the prince of darkness, you can be it. But I don't operate in the dark, I operate in the light.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.

I love the dead... Frequently.

I like to talk about weirdness. We all have strange thoughts and ideas, and when you really trust someone you can express them. And they can express them to you, and that's one of the joys of life.

He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any advantage of natural and extemporary wit- though many young men think the contrary.