Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!

The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.

Songs are as sad as the listener.

Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.

He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.

We spent our lives making livings.

We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.

Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.

Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers should lead the Democratic Party. They are the only Democrats with any convictions.

Passion is the degree of difficulty we are willing to endure to accomplish the goal.

In the long run, a short cut seldom is.

Sure. I've never dated a woman of anything like that, But, I mean, I think it's much more the person that you fall in love with – and why would you close yourself off to fifty percent of the people?

Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.

The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.