If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were the same as mine, I think the world would be a pretty dismal sort of a place.

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.

Scuttlebutt is one of the most overlooked acts that can decrease one's sagacity

Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers.

I know the market, coz I am the market

If you have to be burned at the stake, be a good fellow and collect your own fire-wood.

When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.

You are bigger than your circumstances.

The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

In a way, every parent is sort of dependent on the benevolence of the society around them to take care of their children.

Practice is this life, and realization is this life, and this life is revealed right here and now.

We've got more productive capacity now than we ever have.