It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and they fail of their promise.

Slight changes simply make a blur.

The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said. The chances, the changes are all yours to make. The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?

I'd be a terrible secret agent. I can't keep a secret and I'm not sneaky.

A truly feminine woman should always retain a little air of mystery.

I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before.

As I've grown older, the simple pleasure of sitting on the couch with someone you love and watching a documentary is about as good as it gets for me.

Keep a stiff upper chin.

Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.

Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.