I never get over feeling bad about tearing open a beautifully wrapped present. It takes ten seconds to destroy a work of art that took someone ten minutes to accomplish.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Being kind is more important than being right.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Remember when we told each other no distractions?Yes. He runs a blazing finger over my earrings, touching each one in turn.Distract me.

Other people's eyes are limitless and that's what scares me.

The Appreciation Meditation is the first step towards allowing and encouraging your inner nature to come to the surface of your mind.

Logic was puny in the face of my wrath. Logic was puny and magic was mighty: I had just gotten rebirthed, refilled and renewed, and was fast on my way to resentful.

God, I'm a girl with a cursed fate. I've fallen in love with a boy and I want to be happy.

It couldn't last of course. They both knew it. Not the evening, Not the holiday.

That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get there it is hard to go back.

The first step in healing is to put the focus on what's alive now, not what happened in the past.

You have to learn to work and search, not expect instantly to find.

It’s hard to look in charge when you’re hunched over like Quasimodo.