placid, adj.Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

It's not about adding diversity for the sake of diversity, it's about subtracting homogeneity for the sake of realism.

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

When I'm dating someone, if she bonds with my cats I'll give her a chance maybe more than I would otherwise. But if she doesn't like my cats it's kind of a deal breaker.

Trusting the government with money creation is like trusting a drunk with a whiskey factory.

Property crime is down 40 percent. We just don't want to see it creep back up. We've had 25 years of very good cooperation.

So often, the best way to figure out who has a shot at winning is by eliminating those that you're pretty sure don't.

Vision and the ability to mobilize and inspire people at the grassroots. That's what the most important criteria is going to be for any DNC chair.

While there may have once been a stigma to making money, high-earning women actually have an advantage in the dating-and-marriage market.

Our fear leads us to say no all the time.

Can we find "The Universe in a grain of sand"? Well perhaps, but a stone seems easier to visualize.