Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge.

And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.

The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.

We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us. Christ, we're in love. As deeply, as profoundly, as it's possible to be in love.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

Love is a wishbone cracked in two.

It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57, 000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.

I recognize no rights but human rights.

What we experience, as a perceptual experience, is not what is. It's very specific to the nervous system.

On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.

Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.

My timing is so precise, a heckler would have to make an appointment just to get a word in.

Whatever I'm working on, I get excited. It does not matter whether I have done the same piece many times. I still can't wait to get out to the shop in the morning.

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.