Tools, of course, can be the subtlest of traps.

I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

A person who reads lives more than one life, but that means that they die more than once as well.

My life has been that of someone who has moved from the countryside to the society. To make that transition, I have had to learn a lot.

Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul.

In all American professional sports you start on a certain level and you have to work your way up through a farm system. It's really the same in acting.

Well, what I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies.

I've always been way more attracted to playing imposing characters than the hero. I've always been more intrigued by Iago in Shakespeare than playing Romeo. That was always boring to me.

I stay in the present, so I don't know about the future.

If someone tried to assimilate you for years, if your language was forbidden, if the names of your hometown were changed, what would do you but revolt.

Self-control is only courage under another form.

A monkey was the President, though maybe not the first. And there was peace and harmony throughout the universe.