"America's a family. We all yell at each other. It all works out."

"It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me."

"If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it."

"I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work."

"It is a humble truth that the highest expression of strength is tenderness toward the vulnerable — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A resilient spirit knows that the most profound truths are found in silence."

"Time is the most impartial judge; it reveals all pretenses and rewards all patience. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Do not measure life by the breaths you take, but by the moments that stir your soul — an essential principle for the reflective life."