God, no. I don’t want to tame her, I want to watch her. I just want to watch her be herself – it turns me on like nothing else.

None of us are ordinary – we just settle into ordinary lives.

We must be careful with our words – we’re like superheroes and words are like our super powers. Super powers should always be used to help others…

Then, things get hard, because once you know magic exists, you have to decide whether to be the bystander, or the magician … and we were all born to be magicians.

Don’t be sorry for the truth. A harsh truth is less damaging than a tender lie, and the worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves.

Love finds you, not the other way around, and you can’t run from it.

It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.

The definition of what it means to be dying has changed radically. We are able to extend people's lives considerably, including sometimes, good days.

Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That's inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.

Oh every time I close my eyes I see my name in shining lights

God, keep me from what they call 'households,'

If you want to play piano, you just gotta love piano, and I loved the way that music sounded from the beginning. Always did - everything about an instrument I loved.

There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be a Christian.

I love Twitter. It's like having a closet full of clever friends that you can visit twice a day, then shove back into the darkness when you're tired of them.

We promised new benefits to seniors like preventive screening and diabetes testing. We kept that promise.

Yes," I say. "Three of these flying birds." I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight - toward my heart. One for each member of the family I left behind.