I sometimes wondered why I even answered the phone, but I guess I always had the hope that it would be someone else, some other way of life calling for me.

Maybe I will always have to love the idea of love or a concept of God more than I can love a person.

Accepting uncertainty was the key to happiness.

The way children stretch time and the way adults forget that stretch could be one of the saddest differences in the world.

Will I ever stop being surprised by the ways people make hell?

Past love is as good as a past dream, intangible, impossible to share.

He excused himself for a nap, and this day blended into his dreams like like years blended into a life, unseen but still felt, the line between memory and present always bleeding.

I couldn't decide how to feel about what he was saying, whether it was all nonsense or just more evidence that I would never understand this world.

But what had really happened? It was still unclear. Was it possible nothing of any significance had ever happened between us and our ending was just the sad process of realizing this?

It was possible she might not have the right feeling after all, that she wasn't in love, wasn't in limerence, but was in some unnamed place alone.

She was sure no one had ever been more in love than they were in those weeks, consumed by such longing, wanting to just be alive beside each other.

Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.

By stepping outside your comfort zone to do something peculiar, you confirm that you can do more than you've done. Move out!

That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.

I get depressed at airports.

People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.

I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.

I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.

One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.