A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

The trick is to begin looking for the grace hidden beneath the struggle.

How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to

The Taj Mahal appears like a perfect pearl on an azure ground. The effect is such I have never experienced from any work of art.

All right, you're a reindeer. Here's your motivation: Your name is Rudolph, you're a freak with a red nose, and no one likes you. Then, one day, Santa picks you and you save Christmas. No, forget that part. We'll improvise. just keep it kind of loosey-goosey. You HATE Christmas! You're gonna steal it. Saving Christmas is a lousy ending, way too commercial. ACTION!

Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'you owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that! It lights up the whole sky.

If the numbers we see in domestic violence were applied to terrorism or gang violence, the entire country would be up in arms, and it would be the lead story on the news every night.