There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

I am a better person when I have less on my plate.

What we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are — and who we will become.

Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.

The Kennedys formed a Kennedy party.

I need one more bass less.

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom.

It feels amazing to inspire little kids to want to do gymnastics and have fun with it.

Never before in the history of the planet have so many people, on their own, had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people.

So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.

I'm going to Queen Mary's [university] in East London and I am trying to juggle it. Sometimes, it's really hard.