When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness. . . all the good things.
Enjoy your youth. You'll never be younger than you are at this very moment.
Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.
Do me a favor. . . Stand up, walk to wherever the nearest window is, and just look outside. You may not know this, but there's an entire planets-worth of summers, friends, sunsets, street lamps, songs, late nights, great films, and night skies waiting for you. Your life is as amazing as you want it to be, but first, you have to let it be that way.
If you're reading this. . . Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is.
Something amazing happens when you're in love and don't give a damn about what day it is anymore.
My body is an ugly masterpiece that lives off the beauty of sound.
Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be achieved by greater simplicity in form and behavior as by ever-increasing complexity.
I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past. I think we have to seek to create coalitional strategies that go beyond racial lines. We need to bring black communities, Chicano communities, Puerto Rican communities, Asian American communities together.
Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
I think it's just the challenge. It's not that all my life I've wanted to do characters [in Marvel] , because I never particularly thought about it, but the challenge of saying, "How could they be done differently that may be more absorbing or more effective?"