Be happy, we’re worth more broken.

Less is less. Heartbreak is heartbreak. You think I'm sitting here gloating. Telling myself that my suffering beats yours? Hurt is hurt. You don't measure these things.

If God exists, He is there, in the small, cast-off pieces, rough and random and no two alike.

Sometimes a person can say I'm sorry a thousand times and that glue will never dry.

Sometimes a person can say I’m sorry a thousand times and that glue will never dry.

Do not be afraid to walk the path that you must go just because you cannot see the end. The path becomes clearer as you continue to go on.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Building your own home is about desire, fantasy. But it's achievable; anyone can do it.

It’s better to not have a reputation than a bad one.

A wish is an attitude of mind to which wings have been attached. You wish and you dream, and your whole nature focuses to bring your wishes and dreams to pass.

No one will learn anything at all, unless one first will learn humility.

After law school, I had the opportunity to clerk for a tremendous judge, Leonard I. Garth, on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, the court to which I was appointed in 1990.

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.