I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.

love is reliable. infatuation is temporary.

No mother should lose her child.

The only language she could speak was grief. How could he not know that? Instead, she said, "I love you." She did. She loved him. But even that didn't feel like anything anymore.

Time doesn't heal, I had learned, it just keeps moving. And it takes us with it.

A sibling is the lens through which you see your childhood.

Don't waste your one beautiful life.

Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.

Even now, there are still days so beautiful, I almost believe in God.

I am the woman with the cool vintage glasses... I am the proud wife beside her husband... I am the writer who has written a new novel.

No one can write like Cheryl Strayed.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

The growth of women's soccer and women's sports all around the world has been slow.

I'm vegetarian, but I love Thanksgiving dinner: faux turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes.

Everybody knows when you've got a role in a Spike Lee movie, you're gonna blow up. But I happen to be the only person who's had the lead in the two Spike Lee movies nobody saw.

I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.

Smile if you want a smile from another face.

Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.

Christianity can be condensed into four words: Admit, Submit, Commit and Transmit.

There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.