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?

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.

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.

You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.

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.

A woman is only as beautiful as she believes she is, if she can't convince herself, no one else can.

It was not only that he was a great man, but, oh, there was such fun in being led by him.

Nature never remembers, that’s why she’s beautiful.

I hope I'm at least half the dad that he didn't have to be.

The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for reinforcement of collective wisdom.

I love Kashi. I eat cereal like a little kid. I carry it in my purse.

I believe in women. I desire . . . to do those things that would advance women in moral and spiritual, as well as educational work.

It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.

I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on.