People make changes in their life, and they blend and assimilate. They find a way to make it work. That's where I've always taken the wrong turn. By not taking a turn at all.

Don't sit back and be a bystander of your own life

Dating is like pushing your tray along in a cafeteria. Nothing looks good, but you know you have to pick something by the time you reach the cashier.

When a girl says, 'I can't believe I'm doing this!' just know that she had it planned from the minute she shaved

People can be taught to hate. And people can be taught to spell. But apparently, it's one or the other.

If you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid you have in your glass, you are either a cliché or an alcoholic.

Believing there's no such thing as luck is very unlucky. Like, the worst. Beyond stealing someone's lucky four-leaf clover.

People often say that writing is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration. This is nonsense, of course. It's pretty much one hundred percent caffeine.

All of my most significant moments somehow involved music. It's like my life was a John Hughes film and somebody had to put together the perfect soundtrack.

If you have a good date, it's nice to text them afterward to say "thanks." But if they were totally lame, it's fun to text "unsubscribe."

You need a little bit of the crazy to keep things fun.

Everything looks for you when you become great

We act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions of lives led in discontent trading misfortunes cause faith is one thing that is hard to deliver it feels funny being free.

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.

There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.

The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.

When to give grace? I'd rather stand before God knowing I loved others too much rather than regretting that I judged too harshly.

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.

I believe the bible helps yourself.

HR?' 'Human Resources.' 'In Brussels that kind of department is referred to as the Office for Personkind Enablement. Resources sounds like something you dig out of the ground.

I know I should stop smoking, but it scares me. I mean, what would I turn to next?