Nature is not the number-one mystery, I’ve learned. It’s the heart that takes top honors.

Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.

Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.

Beauty is the worst kind of lie.

The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.

His client needs him, he says. Needs him? But isn’t he needed at home?

Men... No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy.

Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

Subtract out the impact and the fall is all you get. So here's two beers to remember why and three more to forget.

Express your admiration for the traits, possessions or accomplishments of your customer. Little things mean a lot.

Couldn't we even argue that it is because men are unequal that they have that much more need to be brothers?

[The Goths'] poverty was incurable; since the most liberal donatives were soon dissipated in wasteful luxury, and the most fertile estates became barren in their hands.

Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.

Korea is an open society and we will make sure that there is no restriction on foreign investment in Korea.

What makes iPhone 5 so unique is how it feels in your hand. The materials… the remarkable precision. Never before have we built a product with this extraordinarily level of fit and finish.

I've learned a lot about the limits of what I can do, as an artist, or what I'm willing to do. It's a lot of responsibility to carry a show and to speak to people on different levels.