This is a lesson I continue to learn: Be content where you are!

We are all more similar than we usually realize. So much of the suffering we do in our life is because of obsession with self.

Try to understand long before you move to judgment.

We are all more similar than we usually realize.

Becoming a father has definitely heightened my discomfort with uncertainty. I want to be able to say, I know what will happen, when, why. But most of the time, we just don't know.

One of my favorite things is watching my children learn something new. The combination of innocence and excitement makes a parent feel truly alive, even if only for a second and peripherally.

I do not know everything, I never will, and that is OK.

You have to continually and actively watch for the best parts of someone else that will let you experience love.

Love is the feeling we get when we recognize the positive attributes in another.

As an artist, I think it is important for us to mark places in history where we have made progress, to celebrate by expressing that reality.

Be content where you are! The sooner I let go of the notion that something could only be one way, the way I had planned it, without fail, I have always gotten more done and with far less discomfort.

She'd met Colin on a Monday.She'd kissed him on a Friday.Twelve years later.She sighed. It seemed fairly pathetic.

All of us at one point end face up in a ditch, but only a few will choose to look up at the stars and dream.

Don't confuse having a career with having a life.

To aspiring writers, I say : Don't give up. Storytelling has been an integral part of the human condition since the beginning of time. Don't let anyone tell you your dreams don't have value. They do.

Skype seems the best maybe, as international phone rates are silly. And service is service, that's definitely true. Any time there are two people involved, one of them becomes a server.

What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.

My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.

Openness fundamentally affects a lot of the core institutions in society - the media, the economy, how people relate to the government and just their leadership.

Men and women are not equal.

One cannot grow beauty in the soil of hate and pain.