Just breathe. Sometimes you're only a few breaths away from feeling better.

Change the world by being yourself.

We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work, it doesn't matter. But work is third.

Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.

Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.

There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else.

Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.

Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.

You never know what's around the corner unless you peek. Hold someone's hand while you do it. You will feel less scared.

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

The more you rationalize, the more you move farther away from your authentic self.

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

We have to listen to other people's stories. That's the thing. And that's the only way that we eventually get to know ourselves.

Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.

Any violation of civil rights will be aggressively pursued and prosecuted by my administration. No one will be above the law.

The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.

Every time a Republican wins the White House, whenever Republicans win control of Congress, the Drive-Bys always claim that the message is voters want a balanced and divided government.

I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.