A myth is more powerful - and more lasting - than reality.

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.

A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the indisputable last word.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.

One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.

a star dies in heaven every time you snatch away someone's dream.

Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.

Life is a sacred story.

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.

The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live.

Once you're a winner, you can give all sorts of reasons why you're a winner. Of course, you could all those same reasons to explain why a show fails.

Everyday I walked on to the field I was the best center.

It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty.

I've always been very inspired by people who can make their instrument sound very natural.

If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.