The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.

the soul of conversation is sympathy

For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.

Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

Although no words can really help to ease the loss you bear, Just know that you are very close in every thought and prayer. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

To live in the hearts of others is not to die

Your belief systems limit your reality to a sub-set of the solution space that does not contain the answer.

The smaller your reality, the more convinced you are that you know everything.

We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.

Every Moment of your life is a new Page in your Book. Some Sentences you can’t change, even whole Pages. But you decide how your Book ends.

These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.

I've known John Landgraf for 20 years. He said it perfectly. People will ask if I've seen X. My response has often been, 'Seen it? I've never heard of it.'

I like the idea of interviews where you just talk about stuff instead of where it's my chance to talk to my public through something else.

The researcher is more memorable than the researched.

Most customer service people are great. It's that one customer service person from hell that drives me crazy!

When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.

Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.

There were so many levels to the unknown, from safe to dangerous to outright nebulous, scariest of all.