Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.

Raise the bar higher than your opinion...

Life's choices are wild and free, but sustaining and elevating, or destructive and debilitating. It's up to us to choose.

I only care about the helped less, and the helpless, not the helpfest or the hellfest.

People need to have "the dignity of risk" and "the right to fail".

You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.

I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open.

The demonstrators in Ukraine will persevere and succeed, or grow tired, cold and fade.

All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful.

Mirth is God's medicine; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all the rust of life- ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth.

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.