Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing.

There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.

Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.

Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.

Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken.

The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of?

Have you noticed, " she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?

Why is it, " she asked, snuggling closer, "that I so often imagine myself running away and running free?

Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.

A merciful heart beats contently stronger than many vengeful ones

Despite what some people have said, President Bush did not want black people to die in New Orleans. However, he did hope they would not relocate to any areas of Texas that he likes to frequent.

I think it would be a problem if Hollywood was casting British actors only as villains; if that were the case, then certainly there would be cause for concern.

It is the greenback which is unstable, and not bullion.

God is within your mind. God is within all things. As a matter of fact, there is nothing that is not God.

See that's a goal that I think it's very good in the debate to find out who the person is.

Reciting poetry isn't acting, it's memory work. Actor's are deceivers. People who pretend to be something else for a living aren't right in the head.

Ask "why" until there is no more "why."

The only proper intoxication is conversation.