You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of?

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.

Creamy and leggy, with long azure hair and the eyes of a silent-movie star, she moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

...something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.

Did you know that mako shark fetuses eat each other in the womb?... Its true. Only cannibal fetuses survive to be born. Can you imagine if people were like that?

And just so you know, the invaders are always the bad guys. Always.

And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not—they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note.

Because hope comes from in you, and wishes are just magic.

My tiny scary friend is coming

The artists are the most powerful ones, the creators, first are the painters, working without words, second are the music composers, and third are the writers.

Pride goeth before destruction and an haughty spirit before a fall.

There is a need for heroism in American life today.

Success is not so much what you are but rather what you appear to be.

Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous; teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost.

Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square?

Look, we don't love like flowers with only one season behind us; when we love, a sap older than memory rises in our arms.

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.

Im a little goofy sometimes; I can get a little wacky.

It's easy to solve a problem that everyone sees, but it's hard to solve a problem that almost no one sees.