Take your hurt feelings and channel them into political activism.

Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing.

When in doubt, do the obvious.

Adulthood was invented to repair the wounds of childhood.

It's not unusual for kids in their twenties to be mad at their parents.

The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years.

Getting enough of what you want without depriving anyone else is the ultimate act of selfishness and sanity.

She's an idiot. She's looking at life through a selfish, lusty haze.

Superstition is just fantasy with attitude; it's a way of erroneously trying to control events.

You're much more interesting when you're online - all of us are.

You don't need a reason to divorce someone you can't stand.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know

If books are your good friends, then a conscious life will be your best comrade all your life!

You’re going to let her wander into someone else’s arms? There’s another man who could protect her better than you? Well, if that’s true—

The part in Aleppo, what [people] call it the eastern part, is occupied by the terrorists for the last three years, and they have been using the civilians as human shields.

We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports.

Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.

Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it's a relay race.

If you have never visited the valleys, the view from the mountain top is not breathtaking.

I slept like a baby. Every two hours, I woke up and cried.

The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.