Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

Her smile put the sunflower to shame.

She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow.

if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.

Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow.

Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your angel. Your angel never dies.

When you own nothing, it's easy to let things go.

Life is populated with scarecrows—all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of them turn out to be made of nothing but straw?

Who are you?' I didn't understand the question. I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?' I gave him my name. 'Stopthief.

How much better might human communication be if words were as precious as diamonds? If each of us were allotted only 100 words per day?

We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home.

we will never be tempted to live by the standards of other people or to be guided by someone else’s opinions if we know who we are

In the world of Big Macks Starbucks coffee and oversized SUVS it was business as usual snort and go

Music-a country one can inhabit only in music.

'La La Land' is about the city I live in. It's about the music that I grew up playing it's about movies that I grew up watching. Even the big spectacle of the movie feels private to me in that way.

When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.

My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.

Prayer is in all things, in all gestures.

Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . .