anchor, v.: I drift, I drift, I drift, you stay.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

Look beyond yourself.

Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.

Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.

The California cemeteries make dying sound so attractive it's a real effort to keep breathing.

What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.

Your enemies, your critics, the people that are trying to push you down-God can use them to push you up.

I can see the immense capacity of business to give leadership.

And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.

The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.

I've been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.