I still get very high and very low in life. Daily. But I've finally accepted the fact that sensitive is just how I was made, that I don't have to hide it and I don't have to fix it. I'm not broken.

The only meaningful thing we can offer one another is love. Not advice, not questions about our choices, not suggestions for the future, just love.

If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, then we really are aiming quite low. Traffic jams are to be tolerated. People are to be celebrated.

Don't let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one.

I think when your heart hurts this much it means you opened it wide once- and that is something to be proud of.

You are not a mess. You are a feely person in a messy world.

A good day is a good day. A bad day is a good story.

I think that sometimes quitting is exactly the right thing to do. Quitting something that's not working requires self-awareness and courage.

I was what they call a 'highly functional addict.' ... sometimes people who need help look nothing like people who need help.

It is a decision that compassion is more important than fear, than fitting in, than following the crowd.

We can’t choose our poetic fathers any more than our biological ones — but we can choose how to come to terms with them.

Friends are like bras, attached near your heart for support. Foes are like panties, deported, every now and then, when they get dirty.

My name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five Year Plan Sputnik Tractor Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean?

Governments steal from citizens through taxes and through the subterfuge of monetizing their own IOUs.

I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I'll never be thin. Let's be honest.

People don't eat nutrients, they eat foods, and foods can behave very differently than the nutrients they contain.

How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves?

I have always been conscious of the importance and the strength of nationalism, and this has led me straight to the acknowledgment of the nationalism of the Palestinian people.

The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop

Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.