It's not enough to open your eyes. You must open your heart as well.

There's just as much wisdom in knowing when to keep quiet as there is in knowing when to speak up. Use your voice wisely.

In my experience, it is always worth it to find the love that lives inside you. No matter how deep you have to dig sometimes.

Give people a chance.

Shit works out.

A happiness trick:do more things that make you happy, and you'll be happy more often.

There is absolutely no point in comparing ourselves to others. Everyone brings to the world exactly what they are meant to bring, and in doing so touches exactly who they are meant to touch.

No one determines your truth but you.You can’t paint your own self-portrait with someone else’s hand.

I finally stopped seeking in others everything I could only find in myself.

We can’t heal what we refuse to acknowledge.

I can’t control my feelings, but I’m learning to have a say in how much my feelings control me.

Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.

I am not man so much as syndrome

I am younger each year at the first snow.

Sorry, are you telling me that your demon-slaying buddies need to be driven to their next assignment with the forces of darkness by my mom?

I spent my career trying to speak to the broadest possible audience whether it's in print or whether it's in television.

I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.

Rhythms and sounds are often the first thing I hear and want in a poem, so I can't imagine trying to translate something without at least being able to hear what it sounds like.

Tall peaks are not always better than long plateaus as true greatness must include protracted excellence.

More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.

If Christians had ever been brave enough to make Christ alive, nobody would now be saying that Christianity is dead.