Once a month, try something you don’t think you’d be good at. You can find such happy surprises.

When you're sad, you're not sad. You are merely oblivious to the good things in your life. There is always a crack of light in the darkness. Find it.

I must say, I am trying to live my life with a sharpie marker approach. You can't erase the strokes you've made, but each step is much bolder and more deliberate.

In high school, I taught dance classes for 3-year-olds up to 16-year-olds, so between that and some bat mitzvah money, I saved up a pretty good nest egg to move to L.A.

Look, we are human, we make mistakes. I will gladly shout from the rooftops that I am not perfect. Nor will I ever be.

We are all the best versions of ourselves when we have love and acceptance in our lives.

Kindness moves mountains. Acceptance opens doors, makes room for change, diffuses misunderstandin g.

Maybe I was a pirate in my past life. I didn’t kill people, though. I was just a badass

I’ve kissed girls before, it’s fun!

Beautiful. True. Words to remind yourself, words to live by.

I'm a very understanding person. That's something I was raised to be aware of - not everybody has the same shoes to fill or walks the same way or is on the same path.

True love does not hurt. It's our imitation of it that does.

But if all this time between them had taught him anything, it was that they were orbiting the same fate. Together, always together, even when physically apart.

I'd thought I wanted to live free of my mundane little cage, but the world outside was feeling more and more hazardous.

All art requires is courage and the commitment to eat lots of biscuits. D Ellis / 2016

A pearl never loses its value, not even when covered with dirt.

In the name of the Fathers, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes-I mean Amen.

If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician.

You know what they say about big hitters...the woods are full of them.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

The long experiment with professional politicians and professional government is over, and it failed.