Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies. they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

If you keep doing things that don't matter to you, you will not have time to do things that really do.

Don’t let the fact you haven’t done something before convince you that you can’t do it, or that it cannot be done perfectly the first time you try your hand at it.

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

I'm a collector - I collect everything. I can't throw things away. For some reason I think I'm going to need tiny wooden teddy bears with their arms hacked off.

For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice.

The Federal Reserve was not founded to bail out Bear Stearns or a few hedge funds. It was founded to keep a stable currency and maintain its value.

I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks.

Its difficult to do something radically new, unless you are at the heart of a company.

Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway.

I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this booming. Why? It's madness!