No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull.

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.

The truth doesn't care what we think of it.

Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.

If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold.

Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!

The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

It is not a person’s depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.

Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.

It considered trying to explain their error to them, but what would be the use? They would only go away with hurt feelings. You can't always expect people, or squirrels, to be rational.

Now I don't want to feel cornered as an actor, because I've got a wider range than that.

I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.

To the man who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible.

The real division in the world today is not between socialism and capitalism, it's between freedom and totalitarianism.

This is a very difficult thing to remain independent and persistent.

Let each one of us not waste electricity at home. By doing this, we will also light a lamp in the home of a poor.

I am a huge Pistons fan. Those were some of my best times in college, watching the Detroit Pistons.

Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.

I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.