...in the end it's not just the big and small events that make you who you are, make your life what it is, it's how you choose to react to them-that's where you have control over your life.

The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

Anyone who has genuinely seen God is deeply convicted of his or her own sin.

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

One day I'll be appreciated for what I do instead being held back for what I don't do.

I'd love to own a bakery at some point. My grandmother could help me run it - she is an amazing baker! I'd also love to do a cookbook.

If you're a woman, just make a freaking good movie. I don't believe in the women who say, 'It's too hard, I'm getting shot down.'

Do you know anybody who's come back with a firsthand report on heaven? If you do, let me know. Until then, you'll pardon me if I don't buy it.

Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.

The idea should come first, the startup should come second.

I discovered early in life a stunning truth that's made my life very complicated in its wake, but that I still think is true, and it's that people are very easy to love.