There is this view that if you are not tormented you cannot be vital and creative. I would like to think that is not true.

Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.

I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We're here to learn from each other.

People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.

Let's stop being so damn judgemental & crucifying everyone who doesn't fit into our boxed-in perceptions of what is right.

I was a good liar as a child.

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships-the ones that last-are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.

I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity, and mediocrity scares the f--- out of me.

I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again.

It is not a matter of being fearless. The fear is sometimes constant, but it's about moving forward regardless of the fear. Courage means feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

The snow was too light to stay, the ground too warm to keep it. And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden moment of dawn, the turning of the page between night and day.

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.

I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.

It is not the greatness of the work which matters to God but the love with which it is done.

Training, a lot of the time, is just uncomfortable. But discipline is all about doing the thing that's uncomfortable.

Big Money politicians do not have a new form of entitlement. They do not own our votes.

I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.

If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff.