The dead are never far from us. They're in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.

I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.

It seemed that the good people were always cleaning up the messes.

Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.

What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve.

The miracle is this: that you will rise in the morning and be able to see again the startling beauty of the day.

I used to ask for an easy life, now I ask to be strong.

And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time.

You stopped looking for the truth...I'd guess that's a sin we've all been guilty of.

It was best to believe in all possibilities...there were more mysteries in the world than a man could ever hope to understand.

We know dates and times and locations and participants but accounts of what happened depend upon the perspective from which the event is viewed.

In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and reason must go hand in hand.

Cleverness is serviceable for everything sufficient for nothing.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

We're not in the area where the alleged chemical attack happened. I said alleged. We're not sure that anything happened.

Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.

To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is.

It'll be a great day when the seniors have all the baseball caps they need and the Pentagon bombs Gilligan's Island.

There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many controlled by the few.

Losing my virginity was a career move.

Your heart pilots you to a far better life than you could have ever dreamed of. That's how the heart works.