The key is to learn to respect and honor the complications of other people's lives

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be.

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.

We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.

At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy.

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.

The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

Humans need fantasy to be human.

The worst part about dreaming? You have to wake up.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

A mind is a wonderful thing to change.

Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.

It's hard to narrow down your influences in comedy.

The price of meat has just gone up and your old lady has just gone down.

In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.

If you want a girl to like you, you have to listen like a woman and love like a man.

Truth casts a spell of its own.