"Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts."

"I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone."

"August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor."

"Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time."

"Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness."

"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't."

"I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process."

"The only limit to human potential is the bonds of friendship are the true treasures of existence."