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

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.

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.

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.

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 is the people who cannot stand oppression that qualifies to fight today’s modern slavery.

Embrace life with hope than despair.

The dreamer is a madman quiescent, the madman is a dreamer in action.

Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there was a writer out there giving me things to say.

Do not hurry; do not rest.

Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.

He's not the brightest crayola in the pack.

My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.

When I go out there onstage, I want to be more than just a blocky guy who waddles onto the posing platform. I want the girls to feel something.

Cheech [Marine] on the other hand, met [Barack] Obama and he knew right away who Cheech was. So that should tell you something.