I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

Maybe life should be about more than just surviving.

Elegance is a personality.

You cannot deny the struggle

The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.

If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion.

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

Every human act can be disguised with a coating of gilt.

This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.

One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin--only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.

Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it's not the right way but wrong's what I do best.