Pride is allowed to have an element of worry, especially when you are a mother.

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.

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

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.

He who gladly does without the praise of the crowd will not miss the opportunity of becoming his own fan.

I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques.

I have always felt extremely weird. But I am very happy with my weirdnesses, and I want other people to be very happy with theirs.

The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)

The timeless moment. - The "moment" has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.

To have the illusion of selfhood simply means that when you look in the mirror, you see somebody.

Whoever marries the spirit of the times must soon become a widower.

The universe clearly operates for the benefit of humanity. This can be readily seen from the convenient way the sun comes up in the morning, when people are ready to start the day.

Spirit of immersion and curiosity and awe and participation is something which Timothy Treadwell and I have in common.

And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.