Just as the world spun us into existence, it will spin on long after we are gone.

Our eventual fate will be the sum of the stories we told ourselves long enough.

When I was just a cute little caterpillar, you loved me. So I became a butterfly so you would never leave.

One thing I've learned about myself is that I can accomplish anything I want to. The caveat is that I have to want to do it. I've never been able to forge desire.

I've had these demons for years, maybe for my whole life. Then you came along to provoke them, expose them, and eventually rid me of them, because I believe you're the only human that can.

A sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night.

I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.

Knowing that others want to read my writing is the greatest inspiration to write.

If you don't need to prove that you are right or that someone else's behavior should be punished, you can better see your way to achieving harmony in any given situation.

No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors ... This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.

If you do not run your subconscious mind yourself, someone else will run it for you.

You don't have to love me. You don't even have to like me, but you will respect me.

For me the most important thing is being a really good person, and that doesn’t depend on what you do on stage, that depends on how you treat people when you’re offstage.

Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm directing it.

Confidence is very important - even pretending to be confident. If you make a mistake but do not let your opponent see what you are thinking then he may overlook the mistake.

It warms the very sickness in my heart, That I shall live and tell him to his teeth, "Thus diddest thou;"