There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.

Know what you want to accomplish in life, identify your purpose, and align it with your passion.

It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.

Not only are you what you eat, but you also can be what's eating you. Don't become your problems or let them overtake you.

Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. Me, I make money studying natural stupidity.

I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese - that meant that they weren't very effective.

It's okay to learn from every experience, and it's okay to make mistakes.

For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone.

Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.

when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.

Self-love is better than any gilding to make that seem gorgeous wherein ourselves be parties.