I want my own books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

Any moment now, I thought, he was going to wake up. Any moment.

It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled

You can't really just think, "Oh, I want to make something that is going to appeal to every single person in the world." You have to just try to make a movie that comes from your heart.

The simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego.

Italy is a divided country without a center.

Most diets would have you cutting things out from your diet; they are about denial and discipline.

Now, they say that New Zealand is beautiful and I do not know -- because after 22 hours on a plane any landmass would be beautiful.

The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.

A perfume is like a piece of clothing, a message, a way of presenting oneself a costume that differs according to the woman who wears it.