I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling.

But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us.

Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.

That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.

What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.

I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.

Don't wait to be sure. Move, move, move.

We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.

... we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.

Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.

I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the world.

When you start living under the shadow of somebody, you lose your own personality and your own passions.

In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.

She [Hillary Clinton] exudes leadership, confidence and - importantly - empathy, compassion, and understanding.

Carrying a loaded firearm is the gateway crime to committing a murder.

If you move between battalions, you are still within the same tribe.

He who wisheth to enter Paradise at the best door must please his father and mother.

Every real teacher is myself in disguise.

If you do things out of time you're weird.

Don't take anything from me because I'll track it down.

The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics gained.