Love is the feeling we get when we recognize the positive attributes in another.

We are all more similar than we usually realize. So much of the suffering we do in our life is because of obsession with self.

Try to understand long before you move to judgment.

We are all more similar than we usually realize.

Becoming a father has definitely heightened my discomfort with uncertainty. I want to be able to say, I know what will happen, when, why. But most of the time, we just don't know.

One of my favorite things is watching my children learn something new. The combination of innocence and excitement makes a parent feel truly alive, even if only for a second and peripherally.

This is a lesson I continue to learn: Be content where you are!

I do not know everything, I never will, and that is OK.

You have to continually and actively watch for the best parts of someone else that will let you experience love.

As an artist, I think it is important for us to mark places in history where we have made progress, to celebrate by expressing that reality.

Be content where you are! The sooner I let go of the notion that something could only be one way, the way I had planned it, without fail, I have always gotten more done and with far less discomfort.

I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.

Do you have any Greek in you? That was just a tactful way of asking if you're pregnant. If you're not, then let's break up.

Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.

Motivation is like love and happiness. It's a by-product. When you're actively engaged in doing something, it sneaks up and zaps you when you least expect it.

Poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed.

There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many controlled by the few.

You shouldn't make jokes if it makes you so unhappy.

We resist Joy on this planet more than we resist war.

Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come. ~pg 4

Here I am, a Palestinian Arab who only knows how to write in Hebrew, stuck in central Illinois.