Sometimes you literally need some pressure on your shoulder, to fetch the best in you...

Don't plead with anyone if you were not at fault, you'll only look inferior, stupid and funny, bolster your ego by doing the undoing.

You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't.

In Grimm's fairy tales, you kiss a frog and in two seconds, it becomes a prince. That is a fairy tale. In evolution, you kiss a frog and in two million years, it becomes a prince.

When you have life, [it's] the most graceful, amazing thing to happen.

When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.

Im more keen on the person Im involved with showing me his commitment rather than going through a marriage to display commitment to the world.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we're arrogant and soften us when we are unkind.

Sometimes,” he says, sliding his arm across my shoulders, “people just want to be happy, even if it’s not real.