Are all American girls as daft as you, Rachel?" "I hope so," I said.

I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.

When I wrote, I felt better, as if I had remade the world all of a piece, the way I wanted it to be, not the way it was.

A person has to be strong in life. A person must practice strength, even if they don't feel it.

Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity.

A person doesn't ask permission to fall in love; not even of themselves.

You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.

Because I had already resolved that if you're afraid of love, your heart will break anyway, only in not half so nice a fashion as it does when you let somebody love you.

When I write I am the real me.

The most important thing we ever have to learn in life is to live with our choices.

No one is a virgin, because life has screwed us all.

WHEN THE ALMIGHTY HAS PREDESTINED YOU, THERE IS NOONE IN THIS PHYSICAL LIFE THAT CAN BLOCK YOUR BLESSINGS.....

Ignorance is a limitation.

I never dated much in high school or college.

Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.

If your stress is related to another person, finding forgiveness - changing your thoughts and energy around that person - can lower stress.

You should express regularly to your wife and children your reverence and respect for her. Indeed, one of the greatest things a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Our mission began with finding solutions for families, especially busy moms.

Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book.

Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.

Just being hired by a great director is complimentary.