Books are the mirrors of the soul.

Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.

When you possess light within, you see it externally.

You cannot save people. You can only love them.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

"We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing."

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.

Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.

The depths of the sea are only water after all.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.

I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.

Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.