“I’ve learned that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.”

When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.

I’ve learned, That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you’re hooked for life.

I’ve learned, That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.

I’ve learned. That when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you more.

Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.

I’ve learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

I’ve learned, That when you’re in love, it shows.

In the futile attempts we all make to tidy up our lives and our surroundings, nothing is more difficult than throwing out a book.

I’ve learned… that just one person saying to me, ‘You’ve made my day!’ makes my day.

Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be.

Small daily happenings make life spectacular. Start enjoying the small things in life!

It’s paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn’t appeal to anyone.

You can’t be a good writer without being a good thinker.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don’t know what they are talking about.

The transfinite numbers are in a sense the new irrationalities they stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers.

Risk the fall to know how it feels to fly.

I’m satisfied and proud of the things I did – even the bumps and the bruises that I’ve had on the way. You fall down, you get up, you brush yourself off and you keep going. And that’s what we’re doing.

When was the first time you fell in love? When I started writing about beautiful things.

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world’s fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.

I loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.

As an overflow of my life – the wake I leave behind with my little dash on earth – I want others to fall in love with Jesus and know of His great hope and purpose for their lives.

I think you fall out of love with theater while you’re doing your eighth show of your eighteenth week and your body is saying, “Please make this end.”