Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

If you watch great things, you empower your thought greatly. They that do great things do not only look but they see.

A rich man's lie has more validity than a poor man's truth in a materialistc world

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.

I hardly think a girl is much of a threat. I presume you searched her for weapons? But if she attempts to suffocate me with her straw mattress, I promise to call out for help.

I think that the over-incarceration of black and brown folk is one of the great crimes of American society.

The Cross is the way to Paradise, but only when it is borne willingly.

Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.

You can't create a work without being aware that it will change dependent upon the context or the society where it is developed or consumed.

If world leaders decide to [meet the Millennium Development Goals], I think it can be done by 2015...The question is, is there a political will to make this investment?