We love because we can lose. If there was no threat of separation, no death to shake us to our core, we probably wouldn't love much at all.

Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.

There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment - no less real but completely different. She had both.

Darling, if I take your breath away, I will give you mine.

Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be the indefinable - perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all.

Even "meant to be" takes work.

I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.

Am I a friend or a prospect? Imagine how much kinder life would be if people put as much effort into befriending others instead of trying to sell them something.

Where are the memories that held us together? Where are the dreams that were yet to come? I'm afraid to be happy. I shouldn't be happy. If I'm happy without you does that mean I've told you goodbye?

One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope.

The most beautiful women I have known had one thing in common apart from beauty: humility. It's a shame that those with less to boast about do it the most.

I wonder: instead of retreating and hiding, instead of pining for the way it was, what if I accept the way it is? This strikes me as both the most obvious thing in the world and the most profound.

When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.

There isn't much I have to say, that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do.

Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.

Some of the best songs I've written, I've written in 10 minutes.

This is something that's very special; people saying they watch me play who are now turning professional.

The true beauty of a woman is her inherent ability to make better a man in every way.

Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.

I think passion and discipline are wonderful, complementary things.

Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.