Miracles do happen. You must believe this. No matter what else you believe about life, you must believe in miracles.

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.

You ought to stop everything and write the sacred-words as its flashes in your mind.

It is experience which teaches, not controversy based on supposed logic and assumptions of what is likely to be true.

Whatever their failings as a class may be, and however likely to lose their immortal souls, lawyers do not generally lose papers.

Do you think I got stung because I have honey in my coffee every day?

Don't let people with no life ruin yours.

As the filmmaker, yes, I have to look out for everybody. But I don't have to know everybody's approach.

He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people.

It is the mind itself which builds the body.

A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer

If you add the value, you will become the brand. Find a way to add more value than anyone else does