Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty.

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

My own apathy is bone chilling.

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.

But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.

Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

The mind never has anything new to say-all it knows is of the past.

I'd rather laugh in a tent than cry in a palace.

It's none of your concern what others say or think about you. Your happiness is your own responsibility.

As climbers, we need to learn to be good stewards of the land and take care of these places where we are spending so much time.

When I walk into a screening, I'm nervous in a different way than I am as an actor. But the response is ultimately I know how I feel about it and that's what matters to me the most.

America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.

We'll all make better choices about diet, exercise, and personal health when someone else isn't paying for the consequences of those choices.

The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.

As a 12-year-old, I think everything seems scary.

Everybody should be mad but anger only takes you so far. At some point, you'll have outrage fatigue and burn out.