If you doubt your sanity, is that proof?

What I know definitively about life at this age … is absolutely nothing.

It will never be all that I want it to be…But it is always twice what I expected.

Patience is born to all cats. They just don't care to deploy it where others are concerned.

I hope that I’m a good man ... it would be enough.

Sometimes, insatiable curiosity and compassion are all that life requires of us.

I hope that I am a good man … it would be enough.

The sun was directly overhead, bright against the flower’s exterior. Warm blueish-purple silhouettes pirouetted and danced along interior walls.

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor

Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

The Commonwealth is a vital and positive partnership between countries striving to develop trade relations and promote democracy and human rights, united by shared values.

Although I'd first seen Senator Hart in Aspen, Colorado, at a New Year's Day party in 1987, we hadn't talked.

I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions... Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.

Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing.

All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to man's continual falling in love with beauty and his desperate attempt to induce beauty to live with him and enrich his common life.

When I watch students make particular decisions about language, structure, and form, it sharpens my own thinking and my own development as a writer.

Come with me while the moon is on the sea The night is young and so are we Dreams come true in Blue Hawaii And mine could all come true This magic night of nights with you