It’s not about getting over things, it’s about making room for them. It’s about painting the picture with contrast.

Happy people know suffering more than anyone else, and that’s how they can see just how damn beautiful their lives are. It’s because they’ve seen the depths.

People will come and go as they are scheduled to. Let them. Holding on does not affect them, only you.

We must be able to look under the surface rather than over-analyze it and delude ourselves into thinking we’re seeing beneath it.

It’s a great privilege to not know where you’ll end up, just where you’re headed. It’s the only way to get there.

Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.

O thy! Thou made me infinite with infinite love.Not by finishing, but by transforming to infinite for infinite joy!

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

Being right can never compete with doing well.

It was so much fun conducting an orchestra and watching the musicians' faces as some of Kanye's lyrics went by. They couldn't believe what was going on.

I believe that photography loves banal objects, and I love the life of objects.

What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

I used to go over to my friend's house and we'd watch VCR tapes, three of them a day, and I was like, "I could come up with better stories than this." And I've wanted to write films ever since.

Men measure not only other men, but all other things, by themselves.

I just have to be able to follow and enjoy the writer's voice and the writer's point of view. Liking what the person has to say is not really important to me.