When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain, and you can't quite get there, that's when you're better.

Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.

Pay more attention to losing inches than losing pounds.

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

I don't think it's natural for two people to swear to be together for the rest of their lives.

Sex and intimacy are not the same: You can have sex all your life and never be intimate with a person. There has to be empathy in the relationship. You have to enjoy seeing through their eyes. When you're with them, you're there and not thinking about what you're gonna do tomorrow.

Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.