For the record, a mechanical engineer is responsible for how just about anything is built. We make sure any type of structure or vehicle or roadway is strong, safe and will stay together.

When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad.

If only…the saddest words in the English language.

"I don't want to lose you, I love you, and...and that's all I've got." As speeches went, it wasn't great. As feelings went...different story.

The love of your life won't be the man you end up with, and you'll always compare the two.

But they're family, and you forgive them, even if they are human equivalent of hyenas. Because that's what you do, Posey. Forgive.

She smiled, and there it was again, that aching pressure in his chest. Love, or a heart attack. Kind of the same thing.

The librarian, the warrior, the free spirit... archetypes are a great jumping off point to help clarify where we want to go with a character.

Commandment #1: Believe in yourself. Commandment #2: Get over yourself.

Maybe love isn't just a bouquet of roses once in a while. Maybe it's just sticking it out, when it's hard, when you're mad, when you're tired.

Love came when you weren't looking, except in the case of millions who found mates on Match.com, but, hey. It sounded good.

Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda].

My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.

Rev it High. Rev it low. I'm strong, committed, and ready to go!

Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

I have enjoyed earthly happiness, I have lived and loved.

Struggle is nature's way of strengthening it

The story of survival is a nice metaphor for our experience making this movie, finding your inner strength and powering through and getting to the endpoint alive.

Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are.

The only one you get even with is yourself.

In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons.