My cousin is an agoraphobic homosexual, which makes it kind of hard for him to come out of the closet.

Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.

For years I thought my father was a hunchback. Turns out he didn't know suspenders were adjustable.

After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.

Adversity is a natural part of being human. It is the height of arrogance to prescribe a moral code or health regimen or spiritual practice as an amulet to keep things from falling apart.

I consider myself a very lucky man indeed.

Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.

Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis.

What we're doing for another person is more important than what we're feeling for them.

Oh, Zoe Kazan - I'd move back to Brooklyn for her. She makes me happy with my life. Knowing her, being at her dinner table, going on a walk with her is the best of all possible worlds.

I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.

The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.