There is nothing perfect...only life.

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. I'm just going to lay it down now. It's my time to die, and it's your time to live. Don't mess it up.

Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now

Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?

We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?

I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.

And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.

Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright

He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.

She tried to focus on the element of riddle or at least puzzle contained in the letter and ignore the sense of doom that was sweeping through her like clouds rolling to the shore over open water.

Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular.

My personal favorite [ moment] was when someone asked for one selfie too many and [Andy Cohen] snapped and tried to kill her by hugging her.

I'm a T-shirt-and-jeans-with-combat-boots guy. And if I don't have to shave, I don't.

Focus Not on Having Less or Having More, But on Wanting What You Have.

Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love.

Who said the road doesn’t have bumps? It can still be traveled.

I was very ill at ease with people in social situations, and I realized that if I photographed I wouldn't have to chat.

How to succeed in business without really trying (title of book)

You've got to use it, the pain. Use it as fuel to move past the torment, to the light at the end of the tunnel