This, I think, is how people survive: Even when horrible things have been done to us, we can still find gratitude in one another.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

You'll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real.

I trust that you are aware that today’s success is tomorrow’s mediocrity. This means anything appealing today will be appalling tomorrow.

You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.

When you use life's curve balls to create positive energy, you cultivate a Don't Die® spirit that powers you through moment by moment so that you live your life to the fullest until the very end.

If we choose to turn left when God wants us to go right, we cannot expect God to support the plans we made on our own.

Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.

Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

I tell each artist they have to grow toward a revenue stream.

What you want, my lad, and what you're going to get are two very different things.

We all get outraged by things and there are things that make us angry and maybe for a while we get angry enough to actually go do something about it.