There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.

She thought of how much people changed you. It was the opposite of what you always heard, that no one could change a person. It wasn't true. It was only through other people that one ever did change.

There are aspects of love that I once undervalued. Kindness. Having a sort of honor when love is on the table.

Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.

Between children and parents there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.

Off the packed trail we experience the miracle of corn snow, skiing atop the crust, like skiing on an eggshell that has been sprinkled with sugar.

Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder and a little longer. And you end up with a memento.

A struggle, to the person experiencing it, is a struggle.

I first travelled to Africa at the end of 1996 and was immediately captivated. I had planned on a three-week trip, and I ended up staying two months.

Change and renewal are themes in life, arent they? We keep growing throughout life.

Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways.

Forever, if she promises to never part the ocean where the river sings.

He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.

I think when I was two years old in the sandbox. I think I formulated my basic philosophy there, and I haven't really had to alter it very much ever since

For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that.

I have spoken to people in intelligence. And they are big believers in, as an example, waterboarding. Because they say it does work. It does work.

As long as I own this football team and long after I'm gone, they will always be the Washington Redskins.

What is a budget review? A personal review with numbers

We are seekers of the truth, but we do not embody the truth. And in humility, we should recognize that the same can be said about our most ardent foes.

The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft; and gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

Practical gifts are another great way to be thoughtful, and they work for anything from birthdays to dinner-party gifts.