"Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence."

"Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you."

"Music is the literature of the heart"

"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."

"Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it."

"I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it."

"The dog is a gentleman"

"You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it."

"I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!"

"For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terrorwhich we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,because it serenely disdains to destroy us.Every angel is terrible."

"You save yourself or you remain unsaved."

"Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE."

"I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day."

"No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone."

"But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today."

"In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone."

"Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway."

"I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself."

"Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you."

"All I can be is me- whoever that is."

"Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible."

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."