So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

To seek after peace is to be ever ware of any who would threaten it.

They were my family, yet they were strangers.

Jocelyn did not want to always remain the same. Where was the adventure in that?

Obey the law and be someone else biatch.

Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.

Failure is nothing but success trying to be born in a bigger way. Most seeming failures are just installments toward victory!

The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion

The Iraqi government and most Iraqis understand that they have to bring back the Sunni Arab 20, 25 percent of the population. It won't work with these Shia militias running amok in these areas.

As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.

Actors are responsible to the people we play.