It's like you wake up one morning, and decided that how you've been in the past doesn't have to define who you are in the future. Simple as that.

Life's a car ride...Sometimes it's cruise control down smooth highways. Other times it's potholes on rural roads.

You know how I feel about love. It was invented to sell wedding cakes. And vacations to Waikiki.

Never underestimate yourself

Sometimes we make decisions about our life and they feel like the right decision at the time. No, they are the right decision at the time. But that doesn't mean they'll be the right decision forever.

The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.

My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.

I love being reminded that existence itself is all about the tangling of souls.

But it there's anything I've learned in the past few months, it's that the only thing that's certain in life is that nothing in life is certain.

There isn't a definite right and wrong anyway. Sometimes we do what seems wrong, but we have good reasons for doing it, so it's not wrong after all.

I miss CDs. I miss listening to a whole album, even the lame songs that sometimes grow on you.

We've been wed more than a month. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name. It is preferable, at any rate, to 'clodpole.

Let us have wine and woman mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda-water the day after.

I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.

It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or even energy.

You always fear, when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story, that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson...

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

Self-realization is a comedown from salvation, but still gives us something to hope for.

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

You reason like the king, who, being sent across the frontier, called out, 'What will become of my poor subjects without me?'

The words of musicals were the moral codes that I lived by. I found meaning and messages in musicals that I didn't find in churches or school books and it really made me come alive in a way.