But it never ceases to amaze me how difficult the things that are supposed to be instinctive really are.

The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simply because the person living it had been doing so for a long time.

You got up, and you did something. And if trying to find a way when you don't even know you can get there isn't a small miracle; then I don't know what is.

But maybe it's what the world needs. A little less sense, and a little more faith.

I've begun to think that we sit far more than we're supposed to...Why else would we have feet?

If we can't accept what we don't know, there really is no hope.

...People would make the decisions they wished to make and some of them would hurt both themselves and those who loved them, and some would pass unnoticed, while others would bring joy.

Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human.

The past was the past; there was no escaping your beginnings.

you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way.

The least planned part of the journey, however, was the journey itself.

Striving to be good is the ultimate struggle of every man. Being bad is easy, but being good requires sincere commitment, discipline and strength. We have to work hard every day just to remain good.

Tasting what could have been—what should have been—didn't make it easier.

My favorite sound is definitely mules. If it was an instrument, it's really pingthe touch of the black keys of the piano.

It will sometimes be necessary to use falsehood for the benefit of those who need such a mode of treatment.

Of course, speculation will always make a crisis worse. If there is a weak point, it will expose it.

Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern Seaboard.

Embarrassment is the worst! It's the feeling of having your entire body go numb and not knowning what to do with yourself for that one moment

Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.

Not trying is the surest way of achieving nothing at all.

This world is good enough for me, if only I can be good enough for it.