In high school, I taught dance classes for 3-year-olds up to 16-year-olds, so between that and some bat mitzvah money, I saved up a pretty good nest egg to move to L.A.

When you're sad, you're not sad. You are merely oblivious to the good things in your life. There is always a crack of light in the darkness. Find it.

I must say, I am trying to live my life with a sharpie marker approach. You can't erase the strokes you've made, but each step is much bolder and more deliberate.

Look, we are human, we make mistakes. I will gladly shout from the rooftops that I am not perfect. Nor will I ever be.

We are all the best versions of ourselves when we have love and acceptance in our lives.

Once a month, try something you don’t think you’d be good at. You can find such happy surprises.

Kindness moves mountains. Acceptance opens doors, makes room for change, diffuses misunderstandin g.

Maybe I was a pirate in my past life. I didn’t kill people, though. I was just a badass

I’ve kissed girls before, it’s fun!

Beautiful. True. Words to remind yourself, words to live by.

I'm a very understanding person. That's something I was raised to be aware of - not everybody has the same shoes to fill or walks the same way or is on the same path.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Writers are always alone, even in a room bursting with noises of the familiar.

Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no fibs.

If it's about the lives of my soldiers at stake, I'd go through hell with a gasoline can.

There's really no honor in proving that you can carry the entire load on your own shoulders. Andit's lonely.

All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.

When you flow like water you bring all of your talents and resources to your creative work... Flow around every obstacle you encounter, including any you've erected yourself.

A leader can't dash ahead around the bend out of sight.

I think that, by comparison with $2,000 bottles of grand cru Burgundies, first-rate barolos, which sell for under $100, are undervalued ten-fold.

I've gone where the hand of man has never set foot.