A secret society exists, and is living among all of us. They are neither people nor animals, but something in-between.

But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim.

You have to get through the rain if you're ever going to see a rainbow.

The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.

They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood.

The highway of life was littered with the roadkill of those who didn't know when to change lanes.

To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.

A life without rain is like the sun without shade.

Miles and years become suddenly invisible when you find yourself back where you started from, as if you've learned nothing and you are once again the person you once were.

The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer.

Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.

Whoever doubt, hardens his own heart.

When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient.

A man makes choices, ” Tal said.“True, but what choices a man makes depends on what choices he is offered.

The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.

I don't see race. I don't see color.

So I spend a lot of time at the library. That doesn't mean I'm a massive nerd!

If you must hate a man for the many things about which you disagree, remember that you should also love him for the many things about which you agree.

THE ROMANS SALTED their greens, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word salad, salted.

A particular moment - and I'm not, to this day, quite sure how I feel about it - I had always wanted to be in the law books - you know, Hentoff vs. something or other.

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again; it has perhaps not been here so intensely in thirty years, not since the Nazis were prospering, but it is coming back.