I could never understand how to build a computer, but the best I could hope for is to understand the people that do.

I love smart and curious people. I value intelligence in my friends and relationships.

I was a mime. Im not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, so we did a lot of training and then a lot of mime shows around Chicago.

There are a great number of people from New Jersey who go on to have pretty successful careers.

Be the reason someone smiles today. Or the reason they drown in a book. Whatever works.

Never be bitter, become better. A testimony is pain that has been reassigned

Life itself is a rickety building

To be happy, it first takes being comfortable being in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there.

Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

Playing frisbee with a five year old is amazingly similar to chasing after a frisbee.

Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.

Rejoice in liberating moments of victory when conflicts, trials, and adversity fall momentarily under your command.