We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

You become what you believe, decide, and act upon.

We still seek to solve conflicts with 'judgement' instead of designing the way forwards.

I've been on the stage my entire life as an actor.

What matters in art is not thinking but making.

It's been very interesting. We've seen a lot of interesting testimony. We've seen a lot of interesting people, a lot of allegations, a lot of lies, a lot of misinformation and some truth.

Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you don't matter, or like you don't have a place in our American story - because you do.

Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.

When I hear my teacher say, 'Line up with your partner,' I run to line up and grab my partner and I tell him to walk faster so we could dance faster. I love to dance.

Self awakening enables you to see the human scene as it is, not as it appears to be, which frees you of its chaos.