I'd prefer to die in Texas when I'm old. They say most good things end the same way they started, and that's where I entered the world, so that's how I'll leave it.

Even before we met and long after we're both gone, my heart lives inside of yours. I'm forever and ever in love with you.

I know you think I'm crazy. Maybe that's because I am. About life, about this moment, about you.

Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.

Our eventual fate will be the sum of the stories we told ourselves long enough.

When I was just a cute little caterpillar, you loved me. So I became a butterfly so you would never leave.

(On getting married at 19) We told ourselves we had forever and we never looked back. The problem was that we never really looked ahead.

At the end of the day, I just want to sit with someone I love and chat about what matters and even what doesn’t.

As we get older, it matters less where you are and more who you're with.

Every word you’ve ever said, is written somewhere in my mind.

She lives like tomorrow isn't coming and yesterday never happened.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles one would hardly see anybody.

Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star, ' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.

Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.

I’m a Twitter addict. Jose Andres is a serial tweeter. It’s funny to see which chefs have embraced it, and the different paths they take.

It's better to be nominated for awards than not to be nominated for them, but of course to some degree such awards [National Book Award] are always subjective.

If you find that a point cannot be made without narration, it is virtually certain that the point is unimportant to the story (which is to say, to the audience).

Okay then. The destiny didn't work with the Chosen One. So I'll do it instead.

Peace and happiness, begin, geographically, where garlic is used in cooking.

Families are the treasure of heaven.

Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself. Then, you will find others responding in like manner to you.