If you want to be a good writer, make sure you read. I'm amazed by how many people don't bother to do that.

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

The deeds of our hands is directly proportional to the thoughts of our hearts.

There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place.

[Students] are exposed to many things the majority of their teachers didn't encounter until much later in their growing up years.

What kind of city we wish to build should reflect our personal wishes and needs.

The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves.

When we step out of our normal world and leave behind us all the usual barriers and prejudices, we tend to become more adventurous.

Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.

Of all the needs that we have right now, more than anything we need a time for love.

Freedom can never be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself.