Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us.

Oh, the things that go through my mind that I never say. Oh, the things I say that never go through my mind.

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

I don't hate anyone. The only people I know well enough to hate, I love.

Nothing in life means anything unless someone cares, and the whole trick is to keep being that someone.

Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?

I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.