... In our family, if you said the words 'I feel,' they better be followed with 'hungry' or 'cold'. Because we didn't get personal, that's just how it was.

This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life.

There's always a way through things if you work hard enough and look close. It all depends on your level of determination.

Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.

But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not.

You are bigger than your circumstances.

One point of view gives a one dimensional world.

I've learned in my life that you really don't know what's possible until you're already doing it.

Life has a way of doing that; one minute everything makes sense, the next, things change. People get sick. Families break apart, your friends could close the door on you.

If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person.

Life takes on the meaning that you give it.

Matthew had called her harmless. Harmless. And being with him made Frankie feel squashed into a box - a box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive)

There is no past. Past is present when you carry it with you.

It'll make you look rugged, ' Mel says.'Because I woke up this morning, ' I say, 'and the one thing I realized I lacked was ruggedness.

You know I want to be a director, but you could never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, is why we broke up.

A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren't 'plug-and-play.' The invisible part is the social skill necessary to use them.

An external thing that is knowable [is knowable] by means of something internal that is consubstantial [with the rational soul].

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

Did-a-chick? Dum-a-chum? Dad-a-cham? Ded-a-chek?

I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a ­manager would be my first choice.

A million dollars sounds like a lot, I know. Especially when you're young. But you can't let money erode your principles or you'll wind up with nothing.