In a soulmate we find not company, but a completed solitude.

There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.

There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.

Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.

The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories — or you can use it to paint dreams.

It had always been a breathtaking view, the kind that made him inhale and forget to exhale . . .

To achieve in life is A hard story, But that shouldn’t scare you.

Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination.

Lesson one: expect to get screwed over for the convenience of others on a regular basis.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism

I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.

The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.

Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow. One does not require that it lead anywhere.

Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority.

I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I'm in.