In our exterior life, we can be only one person. But in our imagination, we can be anyone, anywhere.

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.

The phoenix must burn to emerge.

I know it feels like you have all these options and when you make a decision, you lose a world of possibilities. But the reality is, until you make a decision, you have nothing at all.

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.

How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it.

It's such a liability to love another person.

Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem.

Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.

Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.

Don't become so materialistic and mechanized that one day you stop believing in God's created nature and the natural beauty, Enjoy god gifted natural beauty to the fullest as you have only one LIFE!!!

I tried to blow a yellow jacket out and now it's wearing a bow tie in its mouth.

All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.

I think a lot of the basis of the open source movement comes from procrastinating students.

We are religious by nature.

I'm really good at World of Warcraft. Like, crazy good. Put me in front of a computer and it's like I enter some other universe.

The only true immortality lies in one's children.

I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.

Our goal isn't to close Wal-Mart down. It is to make it a better, more humane company toward its employees and the communities it is in.