Memories are who we are, Tul. In the end, that’s all the luggage you take with you. Love and memories are what last.

Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future.

I am like some wounded animal in a darkened lair, nursing the thorn in my paw, unable to find anyone to take it out.

I've never begged. not for anything... except my mother's love.And that was a useless waste of time.

Marah will come looking for me one day, Kate had said, pressing the journal into my hands. Be with her when she reads it. And my boys… show them these words when they can’t remember me.

You can’t possibly be afraid of trees.

I will rather be poor doing what I love, than to be rich hating what I do.

I loved this place. You could prop up the bar and watch the world go by

You've got to make your own kind of music, sing your own special song, make your own kind of music, even if nobody else sings along.

I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair.

So we need the same strategy, we need young, aggressive judges to be appointed, and that's what the President has done, but getting them through is the challenge.

Certainly the policy is right and good politics usually follow good policy.

The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it was to the last-ditch aristocrats of Evelyn Waugh.

Meditation tells you only one thing: God is. Meditation reveals to you only one truth: yours is the vision of God.

When I'm in office I always keep Members of Parliament talking. If they stopped they might start thinking.