Books are the most tolerant of friends.

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

I have Tourettes syndrome.

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.

This is what you know about someone you have to hate: he charges you with his crime and castigates himself in you.

Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.

Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to dress each group in different styles.

We have the means and we have the technology to end mass surveillance without any legislative action at all, without any policy changes.

Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.

You accomplish victory step by step, not by leaps and bounds.

Not every New Year will be new unless we do something new!

Start drinking vodka instead of beer, and try to get a six-pack as early as possible and you'll be a much more successful actor.

Bill Clinton was a very, very good speaker. But like many people who are great speakers and great thinkers and have a lot of energy and ambition, he talked too much.