Ted is smart and good-looking, but he doesn't use it to good effect, like a rich person that never gives to charity.

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.

Seeing is not believing, it is only seeing, ”George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

When it came to watching television, Ted was ambidextrous.

I think I was able to talk to people about values in ways that people - in ways that resonated with folks.

You will never reach your destination if you stop & throw stones at every dog that barks...Better keep biscuits & Move on.

I like it when the waiter askes you if you want parmesan cheese on your dinner, yeah, give me essence of puke all over me tea!

Coincidence is what you have left over when you apply a bad theory.

Nobody will be sent to hell for rejecting a gospel they've never heard.

I think, on the whole, men are much more shallow than women.

As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.

It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.