If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic. They're much more like vacations, more exciting and different, and you're off.

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.

Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty

Money as the sole ambition has no value.

One does not have to stand again the gale. One yields and becomes part of the wind.

To always hit the target, throw a dart, then call whatever you hit the target.

Most times you don't write the song, the song writes you.

Before I die, I want to help as many people as I can make their dreams become a reality.

Some of the best pop music ever has come out of the States.

At the doors, people are telling me they are afraid to let their children go to the movies.

Let your actions be ruled by your heart, not by your mind

Those who don't move don't notice their chains.