The difference between a childhood and a boyhood must be this: our childhood is what we alone have had; our boyhood is what any boy in our environment would have had.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

Assad whistled a few notes of one of his native country's melancholic songs. It sounded as though he was whistling backwards

I breath.I eat. I walk. My eyes are open . my tongue moves. I speak . I listen. Then why people who come around me think that I'm a toy ?

I'm an atheist, but I believe in art. I go to galleries like my mother went to church. It helps me understand the way I live.

In the enclave, the strong and the physically perfect survived, but if you were strong, you protected the weak until they had an opportunity to grow into their own power.

The basic vehicle of the dance is the human body. When and how people dance is determined by their attitudes towards their body.

I always have faith that something's going to happen good for you, and it going to happen.

There's an inner feeling you get when you get in a situation to do well in a game. It's hard to explain.

You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.

In dialogue, individuals gain insights that simply could not be achieved individually.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.