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

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.

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

Do you know a better time than the present for igniting your dreams?

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.

Dogs are high on life. Cats need catnip.

But be very, very careful, because when you're playing with momentum, you're playing with fire.

A God who is good knows no segregation amongst words or names. And were a God to deny his blessing to those who pursue a different path to eternity, there would be no human who should offer worship.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

Rational assessments too often led to rational surrenders.

New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.

There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him.