There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth

Hands have their own language.

For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’re not the first to die.

I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

Every moment is the paradox of now or never.

For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events

It's not about being right, it's about getting it right.

If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.

I'm just a basketball player, you know? Just put me where you need me.

Adina appealed to the sky. "We asked for rescue and you sent us incompetent rockstar pirates with a broken ship and perfect abs?" "Thank you, God," Petra said.

When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over.

When I was a kid I always wanted to be a mad scientist. I don't know... a regular scientist just was no one.