It’s not enough to be friendly. You have to be a friend.

You can't blend in when you were born to stand out.

Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.

Whenever there is a conflict between being right and being kind, if possible, choose being kind.

I wish everyday could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks.

We carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness.

I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.

My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me.

There are always going to be jerks in the world . . . [but] there are more good people on this earth than bad people, and the good people watch out for each other and take care of each other.

One mistake does not define you.

Kinder than is necessary. Because it's not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.

You could do a lot worse.

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.

Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.

Doing things you're passionate about, with an intention of helping others, will make you an all around richer person.

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

I never thought of myself as the leader. The most important person, perhaps.

You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to.

Words are not truth. Truth is like the moon, and words are like my finger. I can point to the moon with my finger, but my finger is not the moon. Do you need my finger to see the moon?

Before she knew what she was about, she was jumping about like a crazy woman, yelling, “Yes! Yes! I win!” “You don’t win,” Anthony snapped. “Oh, it feels like I’ve won,” she reveled.

It seemed to me that people do a rather good job of creating levels of hell all by themselves, and this was something worth writing about.