Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break... but broken live on.

Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.

We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.

Reality rarely changes

His overactive charm poured out like a lone drainage pipe after a flash flood.

Exude happiness and you will feel it back a thousand times.

Sometimes emotion is gentle, like rain feeding the river to nourish life, but sometimes it explodes like a rainstorm whose floodwaters wipe out bridges and homes.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.

Be bold, but be fair. Don't give in. If others around you have integrity, too, you can prevail

Directing 'The Office' is kind of like someone going, 'Would you like to drive my Lamborghini?' And I'm like 'Yes, I would like to drive your Lamborghini. That sounds like fun.'

I don't remember my life before I had children.

I feel energized walking off stage.