It's always darkest before you're blinded by the light

When it comes to relationships, I find it best to have two feet out the door

The only way I’d ever die of a broken heart, is if I slammed into something really hard

It's not hard to fail...it's hard to accept you failed...but once that's out of the way, it's pretty smooth sailing

Be nice to people on your way up, because you'll land on them on your way down

Loving someone is sticking a pin through a voodoo doll and not hitting any vital organs

Y'know when your dog drags its butt across the carpet leaving a stain- It's not as easy as it looks..."

Manners without sincerity, is called polite society

Anyone can spin a victory, it's a total loss that demands creativity

If life is a bowl of cherries, what's inside of it?

Patience is learning to take a deep breath while you’re exhaling

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

if you don't like something change it and if you cannot change it, change the way you you think about it.

Country music is a form letter. You fi ll in the blanks. You move from one broken heart to the next one and from this marriage to that divorce, from a beating here to a beating there.

If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible.

Friendship is the grand fundamental principle of Mormonism

I call children "our ultimate investment."

L.A. is a great place to write because you have a lot of space. I have a big office at home, I can leave the doors open. Flowers bloom all year. But it's unglamorous in all the right ways.

…maybe the whole Internet will simply become like Facebook: falsely jolly, fake-friendly, self-promoting, slickly disingenuous….” - Zadie Smith