Honesty is not always the bestpolicy when it hurts theperson you care about themost and pushes them away.

Sometimesyou meet people and know immediatelythat they were meant to be your friend.

Your strength and character grow stronger and deeper while you wait for hope to return.

Nurture youroriginality, don’t ever bury itaway.

Busy is good because it showsyou’re alive.

Whoever makes you feelthat deeply and that intensely, deserves to know how they’veimpacted you.

It doesn’t matter. He deserves toknow how he impacted your life

There are more important things in life than chasing after this myth of perfection.

If you lovesomeone, tell them.

The present was perfect and I wasgoing to stay in it for as long as possible.

the soul mate doesn’t have tobe a romantic relationship.Sometimes in life, you meetpeople when you need them, and there is an immediateconnection.

Yeah, I am crazy. Ok. May be I am. But I prefer to be crazy than being a dummy.

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot imagine what it was like to have happiness in life.

Yes, a cheeseburger and fries is probably my favourite meal. But I don't eat ground beef anymore.

Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.

I like a little bit of everything. I think I'll put on Guns 'N' Roses or Rolling Stones any day. But recently I like a band called Bastille, or The Weeknd I'm a big fan of as well.

My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.