“The reality you live in is partially up to you. The fantasy you live in is entirely up to you.”

My home will never welcome me if I don’t welcome me.

Never underestimate the power of fate. It can knock down the highest of goals that seem guaranteed in your life.

It was the weirdest thing ever. I said to myself: why are people always so okay with not having me in their lives?

Own your healing as you’ve owned your pain.

If you ever get the chance to treat them the way they treated you, I hope you choose to walk away and do better.

Don’t judge people and expect them to stand by your side.

If I only give you what you deserve, at least keep me away from what I don’t deserve.

Don’t play with fire and expect to stay perfectly safe.

Don’t see the worst in a person and expect them to see the best in you.

When you know what are you are doing and have a clear vision of where you are going, you will not need to chase opportunities. Opportunities will seek you. Happiness will chase you. And, instead of being a choice, you will be the one choosing.

Respect me, not because I respect you, but because I deserve your respect.

Whatever you do, do it with purpose.

I’d rather be disappointed by the truth than satisfied with a lie.

Don’t break a bird’s wings and then tell it to fly. Don’t break a heart and then tell it to love.

To the heart in you, don’t be afraid to feel. To the sun in you, don’t be afraid to shine. To the love in you, don’t be afraid to heal. To the ocean in you, don’t be afraid to rage. To the silence in you, don’t be afraid to break.

These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

I love ‘Harry Potter’ and JK Rowling – don’t laugh at me!

Outside the street’s on fire in a real death waltz between what’s flesh and what’s fantasy.

It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody’s ear.

Ah, Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.

How can I be anywhere that I am, when I dream of being everywhere that I’m not?

I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.