Time is strange. A moment can be as short as a breath, or as long as eternity.

All guys are scared of each other, didn't you know that? I'm not the only one. We're all born afraid.

You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to begin with. Then it can go on from there under its own power.

It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things, turning-point things, can be simple. ("For The Rest Of Her Life")

It's just some instinct as old as fear: you seek the dark when you hide, you seek the light when the need to hide is gone. All the animals have it too.

I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries to climb up the sides, and it can't, and it can't, and it can't.

The portieres were drawn across the French windows now, veiling the stars outside - that were there nevertheless. ("Speak To Me Of Death")

It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things, turning-point things, can be simple.("For The Rest Of Her Life")

That's a man's vital spot, the helpless thing he loves. ("Jane Brown's Body")

Being broke didn't seem so awful as it had yesterday, being broke but being at peace with the world.("Don't Wait Up For Me Tonight")

You'd be surprised how difficult it is to ask alms of a stranger when you've never done it before, what a psychological barrier separates the honest man from the panhandler. ("Dusk To Dawn")

We are all part of something magnificent.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and there discovered was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Whatever your mind can conceive and can believe, it can achieve

You can't catch the big fish by skimming the surface.

I think playing the way I played, and knowing the game the way I know it, I think I'm going to have a better idea as to what the mindset of each player was.

Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.

Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars.

For many of us who were born and raised in this country, including me, it's sometimes easy to forget how special America really is.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love ... then make that day count!

When you emit the perfect frequency of what you want, the perfect people, circumstances, and events will be attracted to you and delivered!