When a caterpillar bursts from its cocoon and discovers it has wings, it does not sit idly, hoping to one day turn back. It flies.

But circumstances change. Small causes lead to large effects. New paths are added. And all anyone can do . . . is choose.

My emotions are invisible, untouchable—invincible even—and their power far outweighs my own. And so it seems unfair that for all the little I can do to them, they can do so much to me.

There is power in confronting your fears. In knowing what it is you fear above all, you can prevent it from becoming your reality. There are always choices.

This world owes us nothing. Existence is not indebted to us. Humanity lives under this misconception that we deserve life’s blessings, that we deserve happiness. But in truth, life owes us nothing

The stories books tell transcend those of the characters inked upon their pages. A book discloses far more about the person who reads it.

The worst prisons were not constructed of warped steel and stone. They were carved out of expectations and lies, judgment and corruption.

No force but love can impel one to step willingly into the shadows so that the other may shine.

There are many things in this life one can plan for, anticipate, control, manipulate, but love is not one of them.

I have never known anyone to win a battle waged against his emotions. When a sentiment hoists his glimmering blade into the air, the battle is lost before it has begun.

At the bottom of freshly dug holes, I bury my problems alongside the waxen seeds.

I was raping Frank Herbert, but with love.

In life we want to challenge ourselves...

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

There is in every miracle a silent chiding of the world, and a tacit reprehension of them who require, or who need miracles.

I think writing is the most underrated thing in Hollywood.

Again, mercy is literally love in action.

It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.

It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do

Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear.

The deepest and rarest kind of courage has nothing to do with feats or obstacles in the outside world; and, indeed, has nothing to do with the outside world - it is the courage to be who you are.