Some things you can fix, and some things you can't. And I just think it is a shame to walk away from the things you can.

There are days when I think I don't believe anymore. When I think I've grown too old for miracles. And that's right when another seems to happen.

Everyday is filled with opportunities to take a quiet moment

There's no going back from what happened. You can go back and understand the past, but you can't go back and change it.

They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter.

I have a theory that as long as you have one good friend, one real friend, you can get through anything.

Guys don't go for me. Period. I don't distract them. They don't sneak glances in my direction. They don't think of me when I'm not standing right in front of them. I'm scenery. I'm background.

Friends, I was pretty sure, lift their friends up; they don't weigh them down like a sack full of stones

The Little Drummer Boy was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge to beat that Little Drummer Boy senseless with his own drumsticks.

When there's something or someone, when there's anything that makes you happy, you don't let a continent or an ocean or an empty pocket keep you apart

Precision about language can be really, really annoying. It can make you miss the point of what the other person is saying altogether.

In order to make our gifts perfect, you need to work on yourself but it hurts

It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.

The only way to raise the quality of writing in school is to create, share, and celebrate the specific criteria for that quality with everybody on a regular basis.

I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.

Dead men always have the last laugh. They win. They're dead. You can't hurt their feelings anymore.

Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality.

Requite injury with kindness.

Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.

If it's half as good as the half we've known, here's Hail! to the rest of the road.