When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.

You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.

Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?

You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.

I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you

You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.

Michelin Star? I’d rather chew a French rubber tyre.

I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation.

Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.

In a stupid society, a clever man can come into the power; but in a clever society no stupid can come into the power!

I love the idea of a woman's suit, but I wanted something that was a little easier to wear.

I think that the history of the past hundred years has shown us that, by and large, the one linguistic group to whom separatism is being preached is not moved by the arguments which are used.

Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.

Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.