I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

This universe is your home. So make your home peaceful by loving, caring and sharing.

if the ocean can calm itself, so can you.we are both salt water mixed with air.

You are meant to lose the people you love. How else would you know how important they are to you?

When someone steals your heart not even the law can help you.

If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen - I may just miss my life.

It is not about where you are but in what direction you're moving. God is into character, not credentials.

You can love somebody and it can change your life but it doesn't mean that you're necessarily right to be together forever, but that love will change your life forever. And that's okay.

I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

People aren't trees, so it is false when they speak of roots.

Your music has been a powerful vehicle for your philosophies.