It's strange how so much life can be lived without speaking

Sister Maria Martinez whom I believe I've mentioned before has been giving me cooking classes. Today I learned how to bake mean banana bread. The secret apparently is half a cup of dark rum.

This story in my head is too hot to touch. I grabbed it anyway.

She needs to make one phone call, and she wishes she could make it into her past. Into last year. Or two years ago.

Peter and Jessie were like Romeo and Juliet. Have you ever seen that old movie? Starring Leonardo Dicaprio?

Never feel like you need to visit him, ever?" "I see him every morning in the mirror. I think of him as the ghost version of me. And who needs to visit your own ghost?

Beauty can help fill the cracks in people’s hearts and comfort their souls.

One thing is clear to me: we, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

By venturing into space, we improve life for everyone here on Earth - scientific advances and innovations that come from this kind of research create products we use in our daily lives.

Listen to advice, but follow your heart.

Guys wake up at your place and they expect breakfast. They don't eat bagels and M&M's in the morning. They want things like toast. I say, 'I don't have these recipes.'

I think that you can't help but bring pieces of who you are. No matter what you do, it comes through you, as a vessel.

He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.

We turn our own lives into an information archive by storing all our emails, SMS, digital photos, and other digital traces of our existence.

I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.

When this is over, the media will lose interest [in the relationship]. There’ll be nothing to say. It won’t fit into a headline anymore. It won’t fit into a template.