In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.

No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.

Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.

Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away

You your own best thing, Sethe. You are.

She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.

Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.

Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Outside, snow solidified itself into graceful forms. The peace of winter stars seemed permanent.

More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.

In the end all the puzzles of your life will be solved, until then... laugh at the scepticism, live for the moment and remember everything happens for a reason.

I never really learned photography.

I think people are really looking for some way whereby we can grow our souls rather than our economy.

I wonder if it's possible to be a Republican and a Christian at the same time.

Thank you... 'Real Housewives of Atlanta,' for demonstrating a universal truth: Idiots like me will always watch idiots like you fight on TV. You will forever be in my TiVo.

So that's your job too, to clarify and simplify for everybody on your team. The more you simplify the better people will perform.

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Most of the money I make now comes from investments from CrunchFund. And the vast majority of that is what's called carried interest.

In the silence of our hearts, God speaks of His love; with our silence, we allow Jesus to love us.

You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.