“I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.”

There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.

Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.

I look forward and see myself look back.

If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.

Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.

Keeping a journal implies hope.

As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.

People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.

I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.

The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.

Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.

Courage is the only Magic worth having.

Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.

That’s the amazing thing about music: there’s a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck.

What if all the pain i am going through is preparing me for something amazing?

The amazing thing about us as humans is we’re capable of loving more than one person in our lifetime.

It is quite amazing what I didn’t feel after a while. I didn’t really want to feel things.

The ability to consciously decide and alter which direction is best for you in every moment is an amazing privilege. 

Everybody’s blind when the view’s amazing.

Sun, snow and shades – Perfect set-up for an amazing vacation.

I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.