Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic.

Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

What was important wasn't the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the sky at the same time.

I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling.

The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free.

Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.

Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.

No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider.

But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.

The night glittered brilliantly then.

Over and over, we begin again.

My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts.

To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes.

I think unscripted variety television may or may not get a bad rap now, but it is a fabulous environment. It is exactly who I am, and there's so much creativity there to express.

I think the credit crunch is a brilliant thing. We should all stop moaning and start celebrating. When times are tough, it's an opportunity to start looking at life in a different way.

The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.

People are inexterminable - like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices - that's us.

The older I get the more things I gotta leave behind.

Times of hardship can act as both an indicator, as well as a cure, for our broken relationship with our Creator.