I could not remember my first kiss, but I could have told you Charlotte would be my last.

When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.

Books are a narcotic.

Far too many young people today have no spiritual roots. The've been deprived of values by an agnostic, contemporary culture.

I think technology is having a democratising effect on film.

There would be no population explosion if people who are trying to keep the wolf from the door wouldn't let the stork fly in through the window.

We find it difficult to choose our direction because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.

The only way we really create change is to enter any situation with the humility to listen and to recognize the world as it is, and then the audacity to dream what it could be.

I'd do entire music videos in my bedroom, where I used to stand in front of my television memorizing the moves to Michael Jackson's 'Beat It.'

Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.

When the world seems large and complex, we need to remember that great world ideals all begin in some home neighborhood.