Maybe the start line was supposed to be your finish line. Don’t be afraid to walk backwards.

I don’t want to be a person with full hands, resting from dreams, but a person full of dreams unable to rest his hands.

To be strong is to understand weakness. To be weak is to have fears. To have fears is to have something precious to you. To have something precious to you is to be strong.

Don't expect anything ordinary from me, i'm weird, and i like myself as i am

I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.

Some lessons are only delivered in the form of pain.

The star shines for everyone in the world, but in reality, it itself is surrounded in darkness.

Doesn't the world inside a black and white photograph seem more real? It's because the real world is losing its color

One reason why love songs are better than love itself is that you can replay them.

You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you

Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.

To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.

The people who make you feel small, unworthy and valueless are toxic people. You can never expect to grow in life by being close to them. Leave them to grow in life.

A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

If you wish to educate a child who has gone wrong, then you must, above all, keep your attention fixed on the intersection of two charmed circles.

Rejection would be a disaster for the U.S., but ratification alone will not end our problems in Iraq. Even if the constitution is ratified, the insurgents are not going to lay down their arms.

For me, I'm a dancer first. I could be the President of the United States, and I will always be a dancer, first and foremost.

The physical signs of measles are nearly the same as those of smallpox, but nausea and inflammation is more severe, though the pains in the back are less.

But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and could neither increase wages nor lower profits.

Reform Jews are the children of Conservative Jews, or as they are sometimes known, Christians with curlier hair.

The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers.