So here's something I know to be true, although it's a little corny, and I don't quite know what to do with it.

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded . . . sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.

Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

It's a big world, and I really like it.

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.

The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of feel what I'm feeling?

Kindness, it turns out, is hard - it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs, and expands to include . . . well, EVERYTHING.

When I grow up, I'd like to be dangerous.

Every engine takes advantage of a difference.

It's hard to be happy in the now when you can't stop worrying about the future. What I want is to trust that everything will work out. To believe with all my heart that I'll end up where I belong.

Woman won't accept to be your second option, either you choose her or you lose her.

Expectations is the mother of all negative energies within in you...

A strong feeling of happiness and a strong instinct to do what’s right will come to your life, when you’re within your purpose and God's purpose for you.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

Life's a game made for everyone, and love is the prize.

Jeb Bush brought it up at the debate and he was doing it very well, and all of a sudden, I don't know what happened, but he got shut down.

The new fad thing that's going through America and around the world. It's called global warming.