Now here's a good one:you're lying on your deathbed.You have one hour to live.Who is it, exactly, you have neededall these years to forgive?

When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.

Don't mistake dramatics for a conscience.

I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.

Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable, " said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson.""Lake and Palmer?""Ralph and Waldo.

I often think we should have tattooed on the back of whatever hand we use to shoot or write, 'I might be wrong.

There are generally three parties to child abuse: the abused, the abuser and the bystander.

What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide, but existential authenticity each person must find on her own... the angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability.

Nirvana is a state of perpetual bliss and ecstasy, unaffected by the transient ups and downs of its own creations.

I don't know karate, but I know ka-razy!

Its important that kids learn, but I really dont like all the testing, testing, testing.

The very first time I had Whitney Houston on my show, however many years ago, I thought, "You are 'the voice.'" You are the voice, that was my name for you.

When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.

No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.

Everybody I know is a joke writer.

Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.