You make decisions and choices, and you're never going to know if they're the ideal choices, but you make them and you make the most of them.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

People choose the paths that grant them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort.

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important. And wishing never works.

Like I always say, there's no "I" in "team." There is a "me," though, if you jumble it up.

If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.

You have to make changes before people are clamoring for changes. If people are asking for changes, it's too late.

You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real heart to those stories anymore.

The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime."

There are three choices in this life: be good, get good, or give up.

There was a silence. Elliot was surprised, because he would have thought the sound of every atom in his body exploding with indignation might make some noise.

That's stupid." I laughed into his chest. "Boys can't save girls." "You're right." He kissed my temple. "It's the other way around.

There is room for improvement in every life. Regardless of our occupations, regardless of our circumstances, we can improve ourselves and while so doing have an effect on the lives of those about us.

The very madness of the scheme protects it.

An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but everything that happens to me, that I can affect, or that affects me.

Marriage is a school of learning.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.

Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.

The teacher left her wisdom, in the minds of lots of children, and did her best to give them all a better start.

There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works.