Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.

I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Neither were you [born yesterday], unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life.

Ionizing smoke detectors unnaturally raise the background radiation levels in the human environment.

If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, compromises on principles are the street lights

Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

In New York, I much prefer playing older because as characters get older, they get more interesting.

More than half your marketing time should be devoted to your existing customers.

I think that it’s not as crazily different, my job, from anyone else’s, as people let themselves believe. I think people get wrapped up in their own idea of what it is, but it’s really not that.

And really, there is nothing more innocent and cruel than a child.

God gives every animal the means of saving its life-why object if he gives astrology to the astronomer?