I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.

I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it.

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.

When your about to criticize someone walk a mile in thier shoes, that way when you criticize them you're a mile away from them and you have their shoes

When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.

Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.

Love is like war; easy to begin, hard to end.

The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin

Life IS a competition. ALWAYS. No matter whether any of us want it to be or not!

Ah, yes, the mix tape. The mating call of the introvert.

Have we ever thought to consider that the need to be loved grows because of its absence, but that love also grows because of its presence? And does this not speak to the power of love?

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.

Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.

There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty. They are music, mathematics, and chess.

Writing is putting one's obsessions in order.

Many Americans have no idea of what has been the foreign policy of their country. If you don't know about something, you can't understand what is going on.

Inconceivable!" "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.