Slow down. Stop trying to do everything now, now, now. Hold up the people behind you for all you care, feel them kicking at your heels but maintain your pace. Don't let anybody dictate your speed.

Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you...and remember, shoot for the moon.

Some people go through life searching and never find their soul mates. They never do. You and I did, we just happened to have them for a shorter period of time. It's sad, but it's life.

Today I love you more than ever; tomorrow I will love you even more. I need you more than ever, I want you more than ever.

But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?

Her silence was worth more to her than a thousand words.In that silence,she had peace and clarity.Except during the night,when her own jumbled thoughts would keep her awake.

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory.

sometimes we need all the glue we can get, just to hold ourselves together.

what you don't know, you don't miss

I’ve learned that home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.

When everyone is poor you don't know you're poor. My father worked so some of the boys thought I was actually rich.

What were all of them, really, but bits of something else? Bits of stars?

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.

Some people burn out, and some people like Clint Eastwood, he was a wild, international movie star in his 30s, and he's doing the best work of his life now. Go figure.

[There's] this idea of "I want to take care of myself," but at the same time I want to be brave, daring, and expressive.

Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.

The number of illegal firings tripled during the [Ronald] Reagan years. It was at that time that you started getting these companies that specialized in how to destroy unions.

Who knew Lenny was an encyclopedia for useless information?

There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.