God knows we all have to at least try to justify our behavior so we don't feel too guilty about it later.

You mean to tell me you're mourning the loss of someone who never existed?

Take solace in that, regardless of the fact that the love you had in your mind was lost, it was fairer than any, and you can take that with you forever.

We can create the world where we are with the ones we want to love so easily.

Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them.

Start each day asking, "How do I want others to feel?" Then act accordingly.

I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

What's happening in Russia is devoid of autobiographical interest for me. Maybe it's egocentric. Whatever it is, feel free to use it.

I thought not only am I going to die, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever.

You have the RIGHT to change your mind

Great people are just ordinary people with an extraordinary amount of determination. They simply don't know how to quit. They just keep on 'keepin' on'.

Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.

There is something almost cruel about the Christian's being placed in a world which in every way wants to pressure him to do the opposite of what God bids him to do.