I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind.

Find a place to think and a person to love and be happy.

"Wait'll next year!" is the favorite cry of baseball fans football fans hockey fans and gardeners.

The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

America is not what's wrong with the world.

The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.

One of the reasons I loved playing quarterback was that I got to call the plays. The cancer put me in a position where I really wasn't in control anymore.

There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.

What's most interesting about trying to figure out AI is the questions that it forces you to ask about the nature of consciousness.

When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.