A good friend is a balm for the heart.

Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they're not around other people.

Humanity need not be taught in schools, it is a gift and skill one should master.

No good can come from beating ourselves up for falling down—for feeling unhappy when we want to feel just the opposite.

I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus.

I look good, but I probably have the insides of Elvis.

Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style

There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

When we complain, we often project onto others the dissatisfaction of how we're dealing with our own lives.

You women are daughters of God. You are precious. You are made in the image of our Heavenly Mother.

Brownstein's is a fresh and jaunty voice, with a jazz snap all his own.