If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very subtle, the differences in perceiving reality.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

You've only just discovered you have a heart. Let it beat a little.

You are message to the world make it motivating.

I think that, especially as the kids are growing up, they have so much stuff going on in their own lives, they don't really know how much they're looking at their mom as the big problem

After initially trying to defend his remarks about gun-toting, tabacky-chewing, bitter Jesus freaks, Barack Obama is now backpedaling furiously.

By gaining the people, the kingdom is gained; by losing the people, the kingdom is lost.

Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.

Nothing stops an organization faster than people who believe that the way you worked yesterday is the best way to work tomorrow.

Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.

I will not vote to send my sons, or your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters or friends to fight for a stalemate.

I'd like to write a big rock anthem again. I just need to listen to Korn, and then I might get the idea of how to do it.