Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Crazy frustration, about my lovin situation; When patience was a virtue...but I wasn't used to waitin.

Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.

Sometimes, if I am not careful, and I stare too long at a flower, it shrivels and dies.

All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.

The studio part, to me, can be pretty laborious. You're inside for hours on end and can be pretty frustrating to get the sound you hear in your head to come out of those speakers.

No trial is so large we can't overcome it together.

People look at me as spiritual... but I am also very logical, very business-minded. The two come together.

Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.