From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

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.

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.

quoting reminds me there are other people in the world besides only me. And other thoughts besides mine, and other ways of thinking.

The BEACH Success System is a process to be used over and over again. It’s not a one-time exercise.

Freedom is a gift that can never adequately be repaid.

Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs.

The surgery will always be a huge part of my life. I'm going to need to help people with weight problems for the rest of my life so that I can maintain my weight.

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.

'Hard Boiled' is my last film in Hong Kong, before I moved to the U.S. It is the one film which is most accepted by the audience in the West.

To this day, The Duke and I remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my writing took a huge leap forward.

I like the opportunity to play characters who have these dark sides but make the audience empathize with them. You want them to think there is some kind of sweeter, softer side to it.

Christians know how to face difficulties, trials and defeat with serenity and hope in the Lord.

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.