Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.

My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.

I did Lassie for six years and I never had anybody come up to me and say, 'It made me want to be a farmer.

Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.

Silence is a protective coating over pain.

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity.

Always do what you're afraid to do. ... I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.

Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.

It is the story that matters, not just the ending.

The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.

The world is big in some ways, and so small in others.

When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.

Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.

I really feel that my body craves to be in the mountains or by the ocean or in the countryside.

Creativity needs to be exercised to grow strong.

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.

Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.

As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.

There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire.