When he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky

I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.

Who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish forever

She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabraingeekboycrazyhiphoprastagirl to keep it under wraps.

When people fall in love, they burst into flames.

The first thing I notice is the sky, so full of blue and the kind of brilliant white clouds that make you ecstatic to have eyes. Nothing can go wrong under this sky.

I'm layering away: sauce, noodles, I belong to you, cheese, sauce, my heart is yours, noodles, cheese, I hear your soul in your music, cheese, cheese, CHEESE.

... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?

In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.

I always imagined music trapped inside my clarinet, not trapped inside of me. But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?

Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.

Signs form a language, but not the one you think you know.

The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

The brain has a quality referred to as plasticity. The ability to form new neural pathways even into very old age. The brain is fluid, flexible and incredibly adaptable to new experiences.

I never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.

Close your outer eyes and open your inner eyes.

We all live in a little Village.

One of the most important things a real investor needs to say is this; “I want my money back and I also want to keep my investments.

Every other man is a piece of myself, for I am a part and a member of mankind.

Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?