But we'd only had so many nights together, and the notebook had so many pages, and the world was never going to get bigger.

We live in a world where terrorism has a more familiar meaning than peace.

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Look in the mirror and see the President in you.

Let the life of one so dear be celebrated and embraced - with each passing day.

One makes use of pigments, but one paints with one's feelings.

Belief forages, moving from pasture to pasture.

I'm willing to make a fool out of myself in public. I'm also willing to make those mistakes that you're going to make the first time you go out, so hopefully the next time it will be better.

The thing I would like most to leave behind is to be remembered for trying hard.

Don t play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast.

I was hitchhiking the other day and a hearse stopped. I said, 'No thanks, I'm not going that far.