It is only when we decide that 'ordinary' is an insult, that we become the exquisite miracles we were born to be.

Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.

I would rather wear honest tears than the most beautiful and elaborately faked smile.

I would love to saythat youmake meweak in the kneesbutto be quite upfrontand completelytruthfulyoumake my bodyforgetit has kneesat all.

There is more light than darkness, there has always been.

Be gentle, always delicatewith every soulyou meet, for every single morningyou wake up, there is someoneWishing, silentlyand secretly, that theyhad not.

Part those sheetslike holy watersand I will worship you skinlike a born-againbeliever.

If you give me homeI will give you adventure.It's both we can have.

All I know, all I can comprehend of the mathematics of a life, are the times your hand is inside my hand, and the times it is not.

In the space, the pause between this breath and the one that follows, you have made a home inside me.

What if it's the thereand not the herethat I long for?The wanderand not the wait, the magicin the lost feetstumbling downthe faraway streetand the way the moonnever hangsquite the same.

I was tired of being me.

Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too, ” said the snake.

The memories of you are dead in my mind, but alive in my heart.

The hole and the patch should be commensurate.

The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.

If you can't explain something simply, you don't know enough about it.

Pieces of intelligence, scraps of intelligence...you run down leads and you run down leads, and you hope that sometimes it works.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

This is the man my mother lived for. My career means something now because I've worked with Robert Redford.

People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway.