She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.

isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.

I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.

Who is a rebellious person? The rebellious person is one who does not bother about the society at all. He simply lives through his innermost core

The true art of memory, is the art of attention

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat.

I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts.

No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness.

If we call ourselves children of God, then others are also children of God.

Why not? If enough people believe, you can be god of anything.