Friends, I was pretty sure, lift their friends up; they don't weigh them down like a sack full of stones

There are days when I think I don't believe anymore. When I think I've grown too old for miracles. And that's right when another seems to happen.

Everyday is filled with opportunities to take a quiet moment

There's no going back from what happened. You can go back and understand the past, but you can't go back and change it.

They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter.

I have a theory that as long as you have one good friend, one real friend, you can get through anything.

Some things you can fix, and some things you can't. And I just think it is a shame to walk away from the things you can.

Guys don't go for me. Period. I don't distract them. They don't sneak glances in my direction. They don't think of me when I'm not standing right in front of them. I'm scenery. I'm background.

The Little Drummer Boy was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge to beat that Little Drummer Boy senseless with his own drumsticks.

When there's something or someone, when there's anything that makes you happy, you don't let a continent or an ocean or an empty pocket keep you apart

Precision about language can be really, really annoying. It can make you miss the point of what the other person is saying altogether.

We can achieve more in a moment of compassion than in an hour of anger.

I'm looking at the ruins of my own existence and knowing, with a sickening certainty, that my old home and my old life have been truly destroyed.

My goal was to be able to be alone without food, sugar, phone, men, TV, anything and to feel O.K. about myself.

The brightest ornaments in the crown of the blessed in heaven are the sufferings which they have borne patiently on earth.

It's Thursday and it really feels like a Thursday. Sometimes things just work out.

I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.

Entropy requires no maintenance.

My focus is definitely on the racing.

My back is thick with scars for protesting my freedom.

The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence.