Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Each friend represents a world in us, w world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

We write to taste life twice: in the moment and in retrospection.

The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state.

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These are your greatest treasures.

We freeze up because we expect a certain result or because we want things to be perfect.

No fantasy can ever give you what the true you has to offer.

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.