I think you’re amazing,’ someone says to someone else, but it doesn’t matter who, because they’re all amazing really. People are amazing.

You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.

This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.

Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out of it, niceness.

Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.

I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.

Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it

No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.

In order to defeat our challengers and rise above every obstacle, we must be able to persevere.

I'm blessed to be supported by some brilliant staff, who are all experts in their field and dedicated to what they do.

I think that any of the places that's cut off from money, things come up, what the people have to rely on.

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

A hero is someone who stands in the community and speaks their hopes and speaks their passion. That's almost an act of heroism nowadays because higher consciousness is so trivialized.

I grew up in the Midwest and had a lot of exposure to big religion. I went to church every Sunday - my mother even sang in the choir - and most families I knew where practicing Christians.

I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.

You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.

Life in New York is a constant struggle to die of natural causes.