It is not a person’s depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.

The truth doesn't care what we think of it.

No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull.

Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.

If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold.

Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!

The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.

Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.

Because the sun helps you in the day, do not scoff at stars at night.

One who is patient glows with an inner radiance.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

Just think life's too short to get hung up on maybes.

Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.

Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.

I actually like talking.

Challenges are the key in life. You always have to challenge yourself and try to get to different states.

One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.

You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.