If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.

It is the doom of men that they forget.

The future has taken root in the present.

It’s time to accept that I am average, and to stop making this acceptance of my averageness into a bereavement.

If I could write the beauty of your eyesAnd in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say 'this poet lies! Such heaven never touched earthly faces

I want to give some positive messages and to empower some people.

It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.

If there's a poster boy for the fact that all essays are written through personae, it's Crèvecoeur.

The most important thing is work.

But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive.

Even the ears must dance.

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures.

And as if reporting some felony to the police they let you know you were not John Donne.