Was there even such a thing as normall? People had terrible things behing their faces sometimes. He knew that now.

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.

Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.

Time heals all wounds.

Good books are for consideration after, too.

Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity

A change is as good as a rest.

What you don’t know, you can’t tell. Or made to tell.

And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.

Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.

The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

Nothing can steal happiness, peace, away from you: if anyone does make you angry, you are the loser; if someone can allow you to lose peace, you are the loser.

At the end of the day, somebody someday is going to say something about you. At least you can look back and say you lived the way you wanted to.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

When it comes to stand-up, people feel this need to voice their objection through groaning or being offended. It's really irritating... I mean I love what I do, but that's the irritating side of it.

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.

Having children obviously changes your priorities, but when you start to see life through these innocent eyes and seeing everything for the first time, you appreciate the small things.

Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it.