Happiness is a choice. Happiness does not depend on outward conditions but on inward decisions.

What matters more than where you are is the direction you are heading.

Each time we make a choice we are either moving toward freedom and prosperity or bondage and misery.

You never seem to run out of ways to blow my mind, Lexie. You’re my best friend, and you’re the one woman I can imagine spending the rest of my life with. Do you know how lucky that makes me?

Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.

I'm known as being a massive dweeb who's into video games and so on.

He slips . . . but manages to regroup himself.

I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood.

Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.

A tune has to resonate with whatever is happening around it.

To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.

Now it's a war on women; tomorrow it's going to be a war on left-handed Irishmen or something like that.

Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as lushly as anyone else.