Ultimately, we measure ourselves against our own ideas of idealism and perfection, and we don't always come very close to them.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

God is spirit

No matter how long a log of wood remains in the river it does not become a crocodile

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Female athletes are stereotyped by the general population--and usually as homosexuals.

If I ever get married myself, it’ll be in jeans.

That's an interesting thing about an object. One object speaks volumes about the company that produced it and its values and priorities.

God has given each of us one or more special talents....It is up to each of us to search for and build upon the gifts which God has given.

I really can't wait to dance with Ellen DeGeneres!

Everybody should be mad but anger only takes you so far. At some point, you'll have outrage fatigue and burn out.

It's because I like you, I don't want to be with you. It's a complicated emotion.