Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I mean by 'their happiness' is living a life untouched as much as possible by the knowledge that we are really, all of us, alone. That's not a bad thing.

Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

What was important wasn't the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the sky at the same time.

I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling.

The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free.

Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.

Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.

No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider.

But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.

The night glittered brilliantly then.

Over and over, we begin again.

Gratitude gets us through the hard stuff...Gratitude always leaves us looking at God and away from dread.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Joseph Gillespie, July 13, 1849 Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.

And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.

Every team that I've played on, I've either been the captain or co-captain.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness wasn't spending it helping people who needed it.

You're extending hospitality, and hospitality is a big part of how politics works.

Can a man be poor if he is free from want, if he does not covet the belongings of others, if he is rich in the possession of God? Rather, he is poor who possesses much but still craves for more.

You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also.

Do I think Cate Blanchett is the most spectacular creature that ever walked the planet? Yes, I do.