Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.

Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.

Deserve your dream.

A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.

Every moment is nothing without end.

Whatever is not stone is light

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

I know formidable women, dozens of them, women who fight and who win... Noble women. Heroic ones.

I could not love thee dear so much Loved I not honour more.

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

In the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes explode, the peaches they were sweet and the milk and honey flowed.

I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I’m half ground, that I don’t want to be a sausage after all.

In the absence of a natural disaster we are left again to our own uneasy devices.

Never send a boy to do a woman’s job, Irma.” - Payton Kendall

My biggest vulnerability now is my son, Hudson. I am often plagued with fear: Is he ok? Is he safe? I'm in the process of trying to work through this fear. It's a hard one.

Allison Janney is the best actor on the series.Allison is one of the few actors I ever worked with who is incapable of hitting a false note.