If you have a friend, a good friend, a woman you love, and you learn she’s done something abominable, do you stop loving her?

Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words, but you could never quite capture the depth of it. You could never quite hold someone tightly enough.

Every family has a story, and I love that those stories are etched in sand rather than granite. That way we can change them. We can bury the lies and embrace the truth. And we can move forward.

No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can't be open with them about who you truly are, you're still alone.

I'd been a terrific student. I hadn't wasted a moment of my time in school, and I knew plenty about healing the troubled mind. But no one had taught me a thing about healing the soul

Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you. Only you can figure out if it’s worth it.

You got dealt some crappy cards. But you're the one who has to decide how to play them.

And I knew I would nevr have that everything's-right-in-my-world feeling again.

It's just that I've learned that somebody's appearance doesn't always match what's going on inside him. You can't look at a guy's face and see his demons.

She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface

You and me, " I said, "we both got the same kind of hurt inside us."She nodded, and suddenly, just like that, I knew I could trust her with my life.

Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.

When I believed my thoughts I suffered.

I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.

The first time I met Bill Clinton was actually 1988.

Theatre is filled w/ passion, risk and drama (as much behind-the-curtain as on stage), perfect ingredients for documentary storytelling.

Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him.

Save money on the big, boring stuff so that you have something left over for life's little pleasures.

You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.

Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration

However much one tries to suppress the will of the people they eventually will have the last word.