I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.

Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?

When I first submerged my feet into frigid water, they hurt so badly I yanked them out again. I persisted, dunking them for longer and longer periods, until the cold finally blistered.

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

I scan the room. Catherine is writing quickly, her light brown hair falling over her face. She is left-handed, and because she writes in pencil her left arm is silver from wrist to elbow.

You do right by me, I'll show you a life most suckers can't even dream of.

Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?

The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect.

Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.

After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled.

I love all motor sports at the top level.

We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

I am very much a people person.

In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

Oh, that Einstein, always skipping lectures... I certainly never would have thought he could do it.

O for ten years, that I may overwhelm / Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed / That my own soul has to itself decreed.

The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.

As long as Christian life remains our life we will not understand the Christ of the New Testament. You are not your own.

I wish I could have a recurring role on 'Modern Family'. I think 'Modern Family' is the best comedy on television. It's extremely well written, extremely well acted and directed.

I'm better about things than about people. I'm more interested in people, but I'm better at ideas.