most crimes are connected to hunger. One hunger or another.

Take my hand and grow young with me. Don't rush. Don't sleep. Be a beginner. Light the candles. Keep the fire. Dare to love someone. Tell yourself the truth. Stay inside the rapture.

How strange it is, sometimes, which conversations or events stays with us while so much else melts as fast as April snow.

Sicily could only be an island, less by the caprice of nature than by her own insolence. As though she might have quit Italy had she not already been born separate from it.

Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.

We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling about it. We were children loving our children. And that's who we are still.

There isn't an agony in the world more powerful than tenderness

We're all who we are endlessly.

We violate the innocence of things in the name of rationality so we can wander about, uninterrupted, in our search for passion and sentiment.

Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.

It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.

Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.

I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.

Russian Roulette is not the same without a gun

Dancing - that's really what I do at parties. I dance and I hang out with friends. That's my partying.

Don't hesitate to seek external help or advice where need be. Sometimes, it takes an external, emotionally unattached individual to detect your business flaws and render unbiased advice.

Sometimes a man and a woman reach a crossroads and linger there, reluctant to take either way, knowing the wrong choice will mean the end... and knowing there’s so much worth saving.

It's thrilling and it's an honor to be part of something bigger than your own self.

Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.