Always, ALWAYS order extra sauce on the side. Most food does not come with enough sauce.
My wife and I have consistently discovered that nobody actually knows what they're doing. Everyone's faking it, so you can too!
It's far more embarrassing to be caught doing something at 50% than to be seen giving it your full 100%.
Nobody can read your mind — and almost every hurt feeling in your life traces back to forgetting that.
Garbage rarely looks like garbage; it shows up shiny on the outside and empty on the inside, quietly stealing your one real resource: time.
Almost every time I get upset, the culprit is the same — one of my quiet expectations just got violated.
Expect the world to be imperfect and you'll be pleasantly surprised every time it isn't.
The things people swear they want but never get are usually just things they didn't actually want that badly.
Words are cheap and mostly meaningless; action is real, and it's what fills a life with meaning.
If you want something to exist in the world, you're the one who has to make it exist.
People are like tacos: at our core we're nearly identical, and it's the sauce — the 1% that's uniquely you — that people remember.
Do all the adult stuff — taxes, bills, mortgages — but whatever you do, don't actually grow up.
The fastest way to earn anyone's respect is to say thank you as often as you possibly can.
Care deeply about people and lightly about the things you can't control, because whatever you care about gains power over you.
The best way to land your Plan A is to build a Plan B that's just as good — most Plan B's are really Plan A's in disguise.
A shot not taken counts exactly the same as a shot missed, so you might as well take it.
Your best friends aren't chosen by fate or chemistry, but by whoever decides to keep showing up.
The real winner of life isn't the happiest person, but the one who let themselves feel the whole spectrum — every heartbreak and every triumph.
We're all taught to never touch the stove, but at the end I'd rather look back and know I felt the entire range of being human.
Every trait I've ever prized in myself as a strength turns out to be my biggest weakness too.
Life is better when you're best friends with yourself — and more interesting when you're also your own worst enemy.
We insist on learning everything the hard way, because we're hard-wired to believe we're already right.
Your life is really just your time, so the whole trick is spending it on something you'd happily do for forty dollars a day.
You're living now — not a hundred years from now when you finally retire.
Billions of unsung songs lie buried in the grave; you, by definition, are not yet too late to sing yours.
The scariest fate isn't failing at your dream — it's quietly abandoning it and never admitting that you did.
The pieces worth writing feel like they already exist; I'm just the vehicle that chips away the stone until they appear.
Nostalgia is sadness that a moment ended; wonder is gratitude that it will always have happened.
No memory is ever really lost — somewhere in the fourth dimension, every friendship you've had is still happening.
We only ever see what we want to see, then spend a lifetime confirming it — which is how a person stays right about everything forever.
Learning to speak someone else's language — car, code, football, baby — is half of every collaboration you'll ever have.
You always become the first impression you make, so err on the side of awesome.
Christmas is the only holiday that needs two emotions to explain it: joy and longing.
The next time you name something, category-jump — the world could use more medicines named Metallica and kids named Folklore.
Changing one small thing my own way — a single cursive letter — quietly killed my fear of being different.
Most of what we call selfless, even having kids, is quietly stitched together from a lot of 'I' and 'want.'
The best people are walking contradictions — a homebodied explorer, an inviting cactus, a gentle explosion.
