That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of your own existence.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

To experience the unknown, developing understanding and to care, that is our purpose.

I need to be able to face things.

Iran can and should be a responsible state, not the leading state sponsor of terror.

We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.

I have schedules that separate everything.

Always be kinder than necessary.

Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.

Forgiveness is really a gift to yourself - have the compassion to forgive others, and the courage to forgive yourself.

I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.