I guess it's hard for people who are so used to things the way they are - even if they're bad - to change. 'Cause they kind of give up. And when they do, everybody kind of loses.

There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.

Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients. You can start with the world you've got.

If it takes you apart, that's not love. Love puts you back together.

I decided that not talking is like a litmus test for a real friend. You can just sit there and be. Not always be filling up the air with words

Things are so easy to do, so hard to undo.

We should all be much more careful with each other's hearts.

Nobody said it was a beautiful world with no scars.

I think it's the things we don't talk about that make us old before out time.

Love always looks nice. I don't really know anyone who doesn't enjoy it when they see it. Anyone who doesn't, I don't really want to know them.

A kiss, she thinks, has to be entirely balanced -- it has to have a little conflict, a little dialectic, a little revolution.

Good architecture lets nature in.

I feel a connection to many songs that I won't sing because I don't think they are right for me! There is something in my gut that immediately responds. There's no science to it.

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read - unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.

That's the beauty about love. It's not about give-and-take - it's about feeling safe in one's needs - wanting to be looked after as much as wanting to look after.

Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.

Congressman [Mike] Pompeo said he believes the intelligence agencies' claims that Russia hacked the US election.

It don't cost money to ask.

Free trade should not mean free labor.

Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.