But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?

I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept

If you really love someone, ' Claudia continued, 'you have to be prepared to accept them as they are. Maybe you hope that one day they get a wake-up call and make the changes for their own reasons.

An inability (or reduced ability) to empathise is not the same as an inability to love. Love is a powerful feeling for another person, often defying logic.

When you don't make it too far from the plantation, you might as well befriend your captors.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.

Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is, requires to be inspirited by passion; for duties are but coldly performed which are but philosophically fulfilled.

Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides.

Just lock myself in a room, stop answering emails, stop answering the phone and I come out with something.

Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

Death ends a life, it does not end a relationship.

This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.