If miracles were easy, the would be everywhere.

The worst kind of brokenness is the kind that you don’t know you have.

All great roads are paved with uncomfortable memories.

Death is only as strong as you believe it to be.

There are no miracles on Mondays.

It doesn’t take objectivity to know what you want, and you’re not objective enough to know what you need.

Failure to shed tears is a failure to live life fully. And the one thing that life requires of us all is to live it. Never be embarrassed by your ability to be alive.

Miracles need people as much as people need miracles.

Without stories, we’d have even more trouble recognizing what’s real.

Choices are powerful things. In fact, they’re more powerful than most things.

I don’t have to be logical. I’m a leopard. We’re considered wild animals, you know. (Spoken by Megan.)

There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

People have good and bad days.

We have learned nothing from the genome.

To me, it's never about the trick. I don't care about how something works. I care about how people feel when they watch it. You know, that - that connection - that emotional connection is true magic.

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

I was hungry and went out for a bite, ran into a chum with a bottle of rum and we wound up drinking all night.

You cannot reduce the complexity of a given task beyond a certain point. Once you've reached that point, you can only shift the burden around.

Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

Contentment should be the hallmark of my life, as I put my affairs in the hands of God.