We all get lots of people. And maybe we don’t always get to have them the exact way we want them, but if we can figure out a way to compromise, you know, then we can keep them all.

I thought maybe a day was coming when I'd stop constantly worrying about how to live. Maybe at some point I'd just start living, no questions asked.

But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward.

Everyone just outgrew me. Now I think I'm just haunting them.

That's the thing. You come back and you expect everyone to be just the way they were when you left. But it's not that easy, okay? You can't just force us all to be how you liked us.

You're both living these lives you didn't choose to live in a world full of people telling you what that's supposed to mean. That's messed up.

A compassionate heart radiates rays of beauty that remove the clouds of million hearts.

Stories are "how we organize the chaos of experience into the order we require just a carry-on." Joan Gideon

Christmas is God deciding to become what He never had been, so that we can become what we never could be. And so, God does the most improbable thing imaginable. He orchestrates His own birth.

[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.

In an interview, former vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan said he does not have a racist bone in his body. However, he admitted he has three sexist bones and his spine is homophobic.

Friends, you and me... you brought another friend... and then there were three... we started our group... our circle of friends... and like that circle... there is no beginning or end.

At that moment he knew one thing. The only thing that mattered. He loved her.

I figured if I told it to myself often enough, I would start believing it.

Let me tell you, the heart of my tax proposal: I will not raise taxes on the American people. I will not raise taxes on middle-income Americans.

Racism and sexism are not "problems" or "topics." They are ways of defining reality and living our lives that most of us learned along with learning how to tie our shoes and how to drink from a cup.