If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.

If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.

Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?

If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.

Bod shrugged. "So?" he said. "It's only death. I mean, all of my best friends are dead.

Leave no path untaken.

Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's pleasure, Leave no path untaken.

Dogs are the best example of a being who doesn't need to lie to protect someone's pride.

Taylor Swift is super charming. Damn you Swift.

Every canvas that can awaken us more exquisitely and accurately to the infinite and various surface of our experience does that much to sharpen life, and thereby render it more alive.

They don't hardly make 'em like him any more - but just to be on the safe side, he should be castrated anyway.

Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

I like to be comfortable but I also like to look put together all the time.

The only thing I really wanted was the freedom to be able to get what I want on film. I’ve dealt with the MPAA since 1973, so I know how to renegotiate and rework.

There are only two words with four letters which can make us fly: Wing and Love.

I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can I play that has the most effect? What can I play to get people to laugh?

I think the new school is dope. Artists like Kid Cudi, The Cool Kids, Drake and Wale can come out of middle class homes and be on tracks with people like Jay-Z, who's from the hood and the street.