People will sometimes find themselves attracted to others, that's just who they are. It's what they do with that attraction that defines them.

Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.

There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment - no less real but completely different. She had both.

Darling, if I take your breath away, I will give you mine.

We love because we can lose. If there was no threat of separation, no death to shake us to our core, we probably wouldn't love much at all.

Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be the indefinable - perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all.

Even "meant to be" takes work.

I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.

Am I a friend or a prospect? Imagine how much kinder life would be if people put as much effort into befriending others instead of trying to sell them something.

Where are the memories that held us together? Where are the dreams that were yet to come? I'm afraid to be happy. I shouldn't be happy. If I'm happy without you does that mean I've told you goodbye?

One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope.

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it.

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

The program director at a radio station, by the way, is not the superstar. If he was a superstar, he'd be out creating songs, but he's not. But he wants to act like he has control and power.

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.

It almost seems that if you can describe it, you can change it.

Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key.

I realised that conforming didn't accomplish anything. Do your own thing. As long as you learn that, you're cool.

Friend - a person known well to another and regarded with liking, affection and loyalty.

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.