I was a book-y child. I was much more book-y than dark.

I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Stressful energy arises when you think some future moment is more important than the present moment, and the doing becomes only a means to an end.

It is much more likely that help comes in when what you are doing is done while you are in a state of inner peace, rather than resistance.

None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said. 'For knighthood?' 'For death.

My son, Max, was born the day Princess Di died.

By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.

The most important thing about a fighter is something you can't see, and that's his heart.

If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power.

You have to find that place that is very quiet in your head, and anytime I read it, anytime I come across it, my Bible, the first Scripture in there is Psalms 91.

[Pope Francis] symbolically took the migrant south-north route to the United States by going to Cuidad Juarez on the border with Texas, and there he spoke of the human dignity of immigrants.