Today, I would pick the person who made me feel warm, rather than the one who left me cold.

Today is the day you have to start believing in yourself. No one can do it for you anymore.

I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.

Once again, I've been thwarted by the massive difference between my vision of the successful me and the me I'm currently stuck with.

Anyone can smile on their best day. I like to meet a man who can smile on his WORST.

The scientist is more religious than the poet because his beliefs rests in faith for a reality that is intangible.

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

You could either ignore this advice, or take it from me: Be too nice, and people take you for a dummy.

If you're good enough, you're old enough.

Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.

I follow, always, because its the only time when our hearts beat in perfect harmony, the only time when Im certain, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that we are one person broken in two.

I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.

A CD these days is not all that convenient, and it doesn't bring enough fidelity to make you put up with that inconvenience. So, nobody buys CDs anymore.

Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.

All models are wrong; some models are useful.