In that film Love Story, there's a line, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." That's the dumbest thing I ever heard. Love means saying you're sorry every day for some little thing or other.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

Yeah, well, food's one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfigurations, " said Ron, to general astonishment.

You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.

Kant considers belief in God and immortality to be items of "faith" because he relates faith to the pursuit of ends - in this case, the highest good.

If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life.

We are able to help animals all around the world as a result of the media and entertainment business, which is able to spread compassion and change at rapid speed.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

We learn to fight and to grow strong by fighting.

I had my 15 minutes of being the new boy of pop, like lots of people before and after me. Overnight, everyone starts treating you differently, and perceives you differently.