I will never grow thick skin, so that you don't have to feel bad about being a jerk to me.

The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child's heart is worth.

The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking.

People who love themselves, don't hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.

Anger is almost always an emotion for people who wish to control others while simultaneously failing to control themselves.

It has everything to do with being a good human being. A good person. A good friend.

I have long ago accepted that I am a little crazy and a little weird. It wasn't that exciting a revelation though. Turns out everyone is.

I'm not going to miss 95% of life to weigh 5% less.

Some moments can only be cured with a big squishy grandma hug.

I have to wonder at what point the people fighting to protect marriage will realize that traditional couples haven't exactly been doing too good a job of it so far.

But maybe kissing was enough. Maybe kissing was the only thing that mattered, anyway. Maybe kissing could overcome the whole vampire/basketball thing.

I like to have sleepovers.

Happiness, it turns out, is a skill-one that you can train, just like you train your body in the gym. This is the next big public health revolution. Get on board.

I always see those of whom I have heard well with a slight disappointment. They are so much better than the great herd, and yet the heavens are not shivered into diamonds over their heads.

When she didn't say anything more, he frowned, thinking this was the pair of them in a nutshell: Standing three feet away from each other and being separated by miles.

I have had heart surgery three times, so I know what it was like to have pins and needles stuck in you.

When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really.

Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.

I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again... it's funner that way.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.