“I'M NOT A PESSIMIST! I just see the glass half empty even when it's completely full....WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!”

“When life gives you a lemon, chuck it right back.... and add a few lemons of your own.”

“I now knew there was no such thing as a broken heart. It will go on beating to taunt you and mock you and tell you that even in grief it is indestructible and full of love.”

“I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.”

“It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.”

“I want my Ala to look at her father and see a man, not a coward.”

“You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.”