The circumstances of our lives actually matter less to our happiness than the sense of control we feel over our lives.

Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new

Google understood that if you're just a search engine, people assume you're a very, very good search engine.

Reality isn't a particularly good guide to human happiness.

Once you have a very, very large budget, you actually look for expensive things to spend it on.

Hope is the passion to receive your heart’s desires.

A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

I use my dress to wipe up my drink, I care less and less what people think.

In this world, I've got no choice: there is nothing left at all; and you don't notice, but that's all right: you don't know what it's like.

I have a real aversion to ghosts because I don't believe in them. I think ghosts are actually a religious concept, because it means you believe in an afterlife. And I don't.

Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.

On a regular basis I go over in my mind some of the most troublesome things I see about how people approach eating, and the wonder mess we have made out of a very simple thing.

If fighting for working families is playing the women's card, you know what, deal me in.

The world defines 'waste' very differently than Jesus does.

I'd rather live laughing for one year than live without laughing for one hundred.