Honestly, I'm just trying to live day to day

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.

Judgement immobilizes, only hopeful love leaves an opening for God's alternative future.

If people could walk around in suits of energy, that would be cool. Other than that, I don't think men should wear spandex.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

The great thing about unrequited love is it's the only kind that lasts.

The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.

I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.

I'm going to fight for every person in America who believes government should serve the people, not the donors and not the special interests.

One who is at peace can draw good from everything.

Getting candor right - with your reports, your peers, and your boss - is a skill that can make or break your career.

The best fiction stays with you and changes you.