Love isn't a choice. I can't control how I feel about him any more than I can control the sun in the sky. But what I can do is control what I do with those feelings.

Better to be a catalyst for change than a martyr for lies.

The human heart isn't meant to be caged by someone who doesn't feed it.

Try and make it right, and if you can't, that's on them, not you. Forgiveness shouldn't be stockpiled by anyone. It should be given freely.

My mother is quite the character. You'd hate her. Sometimes I think I hate her too, but mainly I feel sorry for her. Which is kind of worse.

To rise from the ashes only to have them rain on you from above.

We are forever surrounded by ash. But we are fire. And fire rises.

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

Wasted strokes, like missed deadlines, are preventable and costly.

Why do you suppose I’m here?” I asked him. Angel. A thirteen-year-old departed gangbanger. “Just ’cause you’re supposed to be, I guess.

Everybody has been cheated on, everyone will be cheated on.

Don't eat processed food, refined food but rather organic food from the earth - nothing with genetically - modified ingredients.

Software engineering is not about right and wrong but only better and worse

In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes that encourage human alienation will continue.

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

The uncluttered arena grants every living thing its unique existence. Including me.

For a real knight, rescuing maidens would be an everyday event." ... "Perhaps a true knight saves himself for the right maiden