Give a man enough rope and he'll wrap himself around your little finger.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor

Peace is not the absence of fear but the presence love and care.

All these boys were lethal. It really wasn't fair.

Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world.

I've never felt a need to really respond to someone else's writing.

Look at me, with my pretty bracelet and tiara... I'm a f****n' princess!

Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.

I'm in a place where I don't know where I am!

A person cannot grow up through happiness. Happiness makes a person shallow. It is only through suffering that we grow up, transform, and come to a better understanding of life.