The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.

...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.

If swans weren't real myths'd make up.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside.

God, what would someone so afraid do with power so awful?

For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.

Walk with me for a while, my friend—you in my shoes, I in yours—and then let us talk.

I feel obligated to tell you that adventures are, on a whole, stunningly bad ideas, best avoided at all costs.

At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.

You know who the big winner in Mosul is going to be after we eventually get it - and the only reason they did it is because she's running for office of president and they want to look tough.

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

For the state of our union to be strong, we need to place value in Americans.

There's one stereotype in the industry that Asian people aren't funny, I've heard that over and over again.