I haven’t been very impressed lately.By people, or places, or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.

I am not a broken heart. I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything, at any time, and I am not your fault.

You were the hardest year of my life and I’ve never been so happy. What does that say about me?

Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.

I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything, at any time, and I am not your fault.

Throwing yourself into the purse of a dream is the biggest adventure you can take on.

You can start anew at any given moment. Life is just the passage of time and it’s up to you to pass it as you please.

Fear is the thing that makes the heart grow.

I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone…

The final magnificent spark of a firework is only the last seconds of the fall. Though it’s invisible to most, it’s the way up that creates all the impact.

I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.

What we makes of the world must be largely dependent on the sense-organs that we happen to possess. How the world must have changed since the man came to rely on his eyes rather than his nose.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people!

Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth.

French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a rummage sale, rusty and missing a lot of essential parts.

I am very proud to be called a pig. It stands for pride, integrity and guts.

It's almost impossible to have fun playing ping pong with someone who doesn't care, won't try or isn't any good.

I'm not going to try to go out there and outdo him. I don't have to try to outdo him, I'm Shaq.

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

Though a man excels in everything, unless he has been a lover his life is lonely, and he may be likened to a jewelled cup which can contain no wine.