Laughter is a very underrated tool for healing.

Don’t work too hard. Try to maintain balance. Don’t make work your whole life.

... to be in any sort of relationship where you do not express yourself, simply to keep the peace, is a relationship ruled by one person and will never be balanced or healthy.

Life doesn’t owe us anything. We only owe ourselves, to make the most of the life we are living, of the time we have left, and to live in gratitude.

Gratitude for every day along the way is the key to acknowledging and enjoying happiness now. Not when the results come in or when you retire, or when this or that happens.

There is always a gift in any challenge.

They say though that we do more to avoid pain than we do to gain pleasure. So it is when the pain becomes too much that we finally find the courage to make changes.

There is nothing wrong with loving your work and wanting to apply yourself to it. But there is so much more to life. Balance is what is important, maintaining balance.

She wasn't stupid. She just didn't want to put her neuron power into long sentences.

I'm sick of women telling other women what men want them to look like.

There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.

I think God's a pretty fair guy.

I hesitated for all the right reasons. And I accepted for all the wrong ones.

The studios will go wherever they smell money. It's like sharks to the blood.

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.

If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth.

In a flat choice between smoke and jobs, we're for jobs... But just keep me out of trouble on environmental issues.

Recording stories is a way of honoring the faculty of memory, even if it's recorded, outsourcing memory to technology.