Happiness doesn't require laughter, only well-being and a sense that the world is breaking someone else's heart, not mine.

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.

Character is what is hidden deep, shows up in the worst of times, be it good or bad, and reflects the heart of a man.

Time stood still so she learnt to alter her focus.

What you consider as real may not exist at all, and what you cannot see today may turn out to be the purpose of your life one day.

It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.

Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world.

People who have lust in their heart as just as guilty as those who commit adultery.

You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else

You couldn’t truly love anything if you didn’t hate at least something. Indeed, perhaps you couldn’t truly love anything if you didn’t hate almost everything.

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

Well, I am an extremely beautiful person.