I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.

Great is thy love.Great is thy mercy.Great is thy faithfulness.

I am a guy, " I say."And I hate boys, " she says."But a guy's different, " I say."Maybe a little, " she says.

I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.

If you start thinking about retirement in six months' time, you're already there.

Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.

I call children "our ultimate investment."

When the last history of high-frequency trading is written, Hunsader, like Joe Saluzzi and Sal Arnuk of Themis Trading, deserves a prominent place in it.

Make a true estimate of your own ability, then raise it ten per cent.

My freedom consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings.

I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.