[I'll teach you] how not to leave the windows of your heart open when it looks like rain and how everyone has a stump where something necessary was amputated.

Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.

When we finished the kiss she said laughing, I can taste your loneliness - it tastes like vinegar. That annoyed me. Everyone knows loneliness tastes like cold potato soup.

When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable.

Amen' is like the Send button on an email.

I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.

I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless eye of that big yellow moon.

Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed.

Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration.

To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.

Don't be afraid to have nothing.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

My mother was a great inspiration to me to always do my best. My father has always been my mentor and friend. They taught me the basic principle that guides most all that I do: faith, focus, finish.

The trick is not caring what EVERYBODY thinks of you and just caring about what the RIGHT people think of you.

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by his barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above.

And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life.

The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.

Let the audience put 2 and 2 together so that it comes up with 4. Let them do that themselves, and they'll love you forever.