I think we're all aiming to be something better than what everyone thinks we were born to be

This was a cruel world she had been born into, all pink and squirming. She'd never wanted to see reality. Now, like the cold, it was impossible to ignore.

But that night in her dream she flew high above the earth in a moonless sky. Behind her, like a falling star, sailed a silver sled.

How unlucky she was--born with adventurous hooves that were stuck inside a pen. But she wasn't giving up. If there was a way out, Flora said to herself, she would find it.

You'll never make it out there. You weren't made for South Pole adventures." Flora gave her an icy look. "I think I know by now what I was made for.

The stars were extra bright tonight, and they shone and glimmered as if each one had something it wanted to say.

Cats may have nine lives, but pigs . . . don't . . . give . . . up.

Hope is heaven.

The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best

If circumstances are always the rulers, the shallow existence of instant gratification will keep us as mere spectators of our lives. Get up! Clarify! Get in the game and live!

When I did the first 'Matrix,' after it came out, I had a woman come up to me and just thank me for Trinity because she was an action writer. She said she was getting really good opportunities now.

The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances...a tiny relationship - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture.

The journey home to God is what life is about. In a sense it's not even a journey. It's an ongoing experience.

Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature.

One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating fermented vegetables.

Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.

What is my great wish and intention, is to make a base of compassion and to encourage people to work to shift the energy.