You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It's you who makes me a person.

The path of your life can change in an instant.

A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.

She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time

People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.

I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.

Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.

Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you'll keep faith in me, you'll remember who we are, and you'll never feel despair.

But it was smell that carried memory.

How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?

Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms.

Accepting and appreciating heart brings abundance in life but gratitude acknowledge and dance with joy of receiving.

Enjoy the present day trusting very little to the morrow.

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

I realized, 'Yo, I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how.'

The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.

Occasionally I'll come across something that's just annoying, but for the most part it's irrelevant to me.

God must love the rich or he wouldn't divide so much among so few of them.

There are things we can do [with violence], and we ought to do it in a bipartisan way.

What else exhausts like sustained deception?

Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor.