The star shines for everyone in the world, but in reality, it itself is surrounded in darkness.

I don’t want to be a person with full hands, resting from dreams, but a person full of dreams unable to rest his hands.

Maybe the start line was supposed to be your finish line. Don’t be afraid to walk backwards.

To be strong is to understand weakness. To be weak is to have fears. To have fears is to have something precious to you. To have something precious to you is to be strong.

Don't expect anything ordinary from me, i'm weird, and i like myself as i am

I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.

Some lessons are only delivered in the form of pain.

Doesn't the world inside a black and white photograph seem more real? It's because the real world is losing its color

One reason why love songs are better than love itself is that you can replay them.

You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you

Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.

There's no such thing as a goal cast in stone. It should be a living thing that becomes a part of your life.

Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.

I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.

We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense and permanent.

Women's love is for their men, not for their children.

Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the wheel, but away from it. He is indicating that there is something else - nirvana.

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

We need to expand Social Security to prevent the looming retirement crisis, and we can do it simply by asking billionaires to pay their fair share.