The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.

And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

It's more important to be free than to be happy.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

The future of Afghanistan is incredibly dark, and decisions are happening incredibly quickly.

It was a story called ‘The Hero’ which I sold to Galaxy magazine in 1970, for $94.

Dont take Portlandia too personally - Its just a stupid TV show

I'm pretty, but I'm not beautiful.

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. The instrument through which the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is lived ... the human body.

I didn't have any set idea of what kind of filmmaker I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to tell stories that meant something to me, but I never said I was going to be the weird, avant-garde guy.

The two things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents.