To watch. To wait. To wonder at a world in chaos, ' the girl said. 'And hope one day you fools might learn.

In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.

What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire.

You speak as if this is a good world with a little evil in it. Rubbish. It's a hellish one where the best a man can do is put a little sanity back and look after his own.

Do I dream you? Or you dream me? Or does someone, something bigger than all' - her hands swept the vast constellations above them - 'this beauteous calamity, dream everything we see and more?

Closing one’s eyes when praying doesn’t increase the odds of the prayer being answered. It merely decreases the odds of being distracted.

We are not defined by what knocks us down - we are defined by how we get back up

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

In a lifetime there are only a few people you can work with... where you can trust each other and push each other in different directions.

Rich grandparents get more attention than poor grandparents.

Even in high school, a rule that permits only one point of view to be expressed is less likely to produce correct answers than the open discussion of countervailing views.

I have noticed that the Universe loves Gratitude. The more Grateful you are, the more goodies you get

To me, each individual is far more valuable than society as a whole.

Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.