Don't sit back and be a bystander of your own life

Dating is like pushing your tray along in a cafeteria. Nothing looks good, but you know you have to pick something by the time you reach the cashier.

When a girl says, 'I can't believe I'm doing this!' just know that she had it planned from the minute she shaved

People can be taught to hate. And people can be taught to spell. But apparently, it's one or the other.

If you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid you have in your glass, you are either a cliché or an alcoholic.

Believing there's no such thing as luck is very unlucky. Like, the worst. Beyond stealing someone's lucky four-leaf clover.

People often say that writing is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration. This is nonsense, of course. It's pretty much one hundred percent caffeine.

All of my most significant moments somehow involved music. It's like my life was a John Hughes film and somebody had to put together the perfect soundtrack.

If you have a good date, it's nice to text them afterward to say "thanks." But if they were totally lame, it's fun to text "unsubscribe."

You need a little bit of the crazy to keep things fun.

People make changes in their life, and they blend and assimilate. They find a way to make it work. That's where I've always taken the wrong turn. By not taking a turn at all.

The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

To make a true choice, we must have true knowledge.

When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.

I write with all my heart

Without adversity, we will not have seen the sweetness of God’s splendid.

God is not about religion. Religion is a structure that should house our faith in God. Too often it is used to hurt other people in God's name.

Take me someplace where we can be silent together.

Poverty is too complex to be answered with a one-size-fits-all approach, and if there is any place that illustrates that complexity, as well as a better way forward, it is Rwanda.

Westerners have aggressive problem-solving minds; Africans experience people.

This aircraft tops everything. All the others look old as compared to this one.