You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.

words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.

Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?

I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you

You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.

On their deathbed men will speak true, they say.

I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

They're holding flushes of face cards, and I think we're the pot.

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

I'd always felt a man should marry later in life.

The tree that growes slowly, keepes it selfe for another.

Inspired music arises from an inspired movie which arises from an inspired script.

It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.

If Justin Beiber was 7 feet tall, he'd look like [Meyers Leonard] that.

I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.