Because this is the beauty of strangers: we're all just doing our best to help each other out, motivated not by karma but by a natural instinct to help the greater whole.

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.

If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.

Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry.

I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.

Book tours are such a little tapas meal of where I could live.

No affair that begins with such an orchestrated overture can end on a simple note.

Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older.

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

Human rights don't trickle down.

You are shaped by Your thinking. The outcome of your life cannot be better than your pattern of thought

The problem is that we are humans.

I'm more afraid of marriage than death.

repose, v.i. To cease from troubling.

My job is to give people who work hard all week something to enjoy on Saturdays and Wednesdays.

Choose the right employees and then set them loose.

You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.

The most valuable asset we have, actually, is our ability to understand, to do the right thing, to be kind, to be decent.