I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.

We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.

You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!!

Jump, take that flight, and build your wings on the way down.

In a time like this, let us trust in God even more. To trust when life is easy is no trust.

Open for sun, closed for rain, that's the poor man's weathervane.

There is more than one sort of prison, Captain, " Chirrut said. "I sense that you carry yours wherever you go.

Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.

Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on"? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.

I guess some people like to just stick with their sound, like Weezer or something, but I think I just try to keep it as close to my real life, in a Neil Young sort of way, as possible.

The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.

One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.

Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.