Be available for life to happen.

People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.

Alcohol is really just the liquid version of Photoshop.

Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you're donating blood.

Friendship is so weird. You just pick a human you've met and you're like, 'Yep, I like this one,' and you just do stuff with them.

I'm a nut, but not just a nut.

Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.

You know how funerals are not for the dead, they’re for the living? Bachelor parties are not for the groom, they’re for the uncommitted.

You can tell how boring a person is by the lack of fear in their eyes when someone is flipping through photos on their phone.

Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.

The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while, or once a day, but all through the day, the week and life.

Words are weapons.

If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.

Julia, I promise to love you, to cherish you, in sickness and in health. No matter what, I will be there for you and our family. I promise not to make the social media another member of our family.

Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so.

Write what makes you laugh not what you think will make someone else laugh.

Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.

Don't make excuses, make good.

In adopting the republican form of government, I not only took it as a man does his wife, for better, for worse, but, what few men do with their wives, I took it knowing all its bad qualities.

Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.

It is odd how one can feel like someone else early in the morning - bigger, cleaner, so much more alive.