In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.

That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.

I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.

You are, and always have been, my dream.

I want you to be.... happy.

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.

She was everything I wanted. She was beautiful and charming, with a quick sense of humor, and she supported me in everything I did.

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

Community is a context and can either facilitate or inhibit the movement of change for the individual.

Riots happen because rationale is eclipsed by revenge.

I have 120 people in my payroll without any government giving me any money. We live off the tickets and the records I sell. That is very unusual.

The real test of love is when a person—including you—can know your weaknesses, your stupidities and your smallnesses, and still love you.

The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

I want to get the American people to start sitting at a table together and talking to each other, holding court, and enjoying a meal - and it doesn't have an expense.

The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.