"Loving is almost a substitute for thinking...." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.”

“Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?”

“Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.”

“She leaned into me, and when I closed my eyes, I knew I wanted nothing more than to hold her this way forever.”

“Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.”

“A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.”

“The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of unsettled minds are always driven about with passions, but never absolutely filled with any.”

“I don't have to work another day of my life, thank God, but I'm in a place where I probably work as hard or harder today than I ever have, but I do it because I want to, not because I have to. What is the difference between work and play? I think the difference is purpose. When your vocation becomes your vacation, the old quote, you know that's when you made it.”

“I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.”