The sad truth is that truth is almost irrelevant in a court of law.

I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.

October was always the least dependable of months ... full of ghosts and shadows.

Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's little waiting room, as she was fond of quoting.

Perfect happiness is knowing that everyone I love is healthy, safe, and content.

No matter how grim things may seem, they always get better.

Give a hundred writers the same idea and you'll get a hundred different stories.

I'm very happy being me, although sometimes I'd love to be a bird so that I could fly.

Dream of me, " he said.Dream of you? I'm doing that while I'm awake.

Meditation is for many a foreign concept, somehow distant and foreboding, seemingly impossible to participate in. But another word for meditation is simply awareness. Meditation is awareness.

Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on"? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.

Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.

Watch yourself as you go about your daily business and later reflect on what you saw, trying to identify the sources of distress in your life and thinking about how to avoid that distress.

Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.

How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

Interesting. You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries, but you imprison those who employ it privately.

It's been like that all spring. It's just that balls decided to hang up there. It's hard to catch it when you can't see it. But that's how it's going to be in Oakland in the afternoon anyway.

If you feel alone and you've got nowhere to run to, always remember that your family is always there for you. It's their duty.