It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you're alone. It feels less like a wound and more like a poultice.

My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.

The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.

But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?

When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.

But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?

The only monsters I have ever known were men.

If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?

If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.

The surprise was worse that the pain. It showed a lack of awareness.

When you're talented, you're talented.

It's even harder to stay at the top in sports than it is to get there.

John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.

I started out in stand-up, so it's very satisfying to make people laugh, but it usually means at your own expense.

Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.

One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions.

I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.

I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

Our ability to respond positively to setbacks, fuels our creativity and lays the foundation for future successes.