You know I love a good family feud and I carry a big stick.

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.

The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

There are no coincidences.

Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice

Who can judge the judge?

I'll love you until the day after forever.

It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.

the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing . . . L E N A

We insult God by speaking to Him with our lips while our hearts are far from Him.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.

Practice at hunger makes the fast easier.

I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.

The White House is one of the few places in downtown Washington where you can get something to eat after 11 o'clock at night.

Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)