"May you have a lawsuit in which you know you are in the right"

"Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have."

"Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species."

"You don鈥檛 get to pick your own nickname. They鈥檝e gotta give you one. It鈥檚 like we鈥檙e all tryin鈥?to make pets out of each other and we鈥檙e not comfortable unless we get to name 鈥榚m."

"An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation"

"God is not in need of anything, but all things are in need of him."

"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God--but to create him."

"It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible."

"When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth."

"We don't get offered crises, they arrive."

"To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward."

"Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments."