If I'd done the discovery before I wrote the book, then there would be nothing to discover. It would feel dutiful instead of exciting.

Every once in a while when I get a migraine, I like to think, "Who hates me today?"

You know you're screwed when a Western doctor recommends acupuncture.

I think what can be most shameful or embarrassing is when our bodies broadcast a secret we'd prefer no one to know. This is why I hate rashes, in particular face rashes.

We want to believe we couldn't be replaced, and that the people we love are irreplaceable.

No matter what you wear, not everyone is going to understand what you're saying.

I surround myself with women who inspire me to be more ambitious, and who constantly astonish me with their magnetism, style, and smarts.

I wouldn't be myself if I weren't always trying to be someone else. I only have so much time on this earth and I want to be as many people as possible.

I spend far too much time on eBay buying lamps and upholstery remnants.

I've subsequently become conscious of MAKING MEMORIES. Which makes me sound like a scrapbooker.

I am simply looking for a companion with whom to spend my days, a companion who will cherish as much as I the stupidity of living in the moment, and spend every dull, amazing second with me.

Christ did not ask or want to be what he was not.

There's always a glamour of pain even in pleasure.

Say what you want but you NEVER say it with violence!

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.

Always have the highest bar for yourself.

There's so much world to see, what's stopping you from flying free?

In America, we like everyone to know about the good work we're doing anonymously.

In volunteer politics, a builder can build faster than a destroyer can destroy.