I envy all suffering, because suffering is necessary to become spiritually beautiful.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

If you cannot love the pain, you can at least love the lessons it teaches

Perhaps there are just some things you leave behind when you choose a new life.

The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret.

If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.

Who would have guessed that the monster of fraud was a democracy?

Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.

Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.

It doesn't matter how fast you move, I learned, if you never go anywhere.

Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide.

What she really meant was: here is my heart, have a care.

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.

Eighty per cent of global warming comes from livestock and deforestation.

I love working with women directors. They don't mind making you cute.

If you don't get it right with your first family, you can always do it again with another.

When it came time to sequence the album, the new arrangements really demanded a different order. They were so different than they were before that the old sequence didn't work anymore.

I'd been through crappy day jobs and stupid garage bands. I was determined to make it as a musician.

He wondered if she wondered if he were watching her.