Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

Life can only be understood backwards

The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.

Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.

I've never lost to Pete Carroll and I'm not gonna start now.

All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

You see all these things that make you feel desperate or sad, but you realize changes can be made, and it doesn't take a lot of money on our part to make a change in people's lives.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Silence always gives consent.

Vocations are born in prayer and from prayer; and only in prayer can they persevere and bear fruit.

Sometimes there's a vacuum that has to be covered.