Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants.

The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause.

If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer.

OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.

(The raindrops) played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow.

We were both chumps. But you know what? It's not so bad when you're chumps together.

Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.

The world is Trouble...and Grace. That is all there is.

She came over and looked at the picture. Then she took my hand. You know what that feels like? Like what the astronauts will feel when they step onto the moon for the very first time.

Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.

Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.

Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.

If you build your faith with the limitations as the foundation, you tend to obstruct the realization of your goals easily.

I believe that for lots of churches and religious institutions, their main focus on the development of faith among parishioners needs to spread to the community.

Cars are the sculptures of our everyday lives.

I'm very open-minded.

Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins.

[Smoking] was a comfort, an occupation, a drug, a casual habit, a distraction, a way to not eat, a way to not pay attention, a way to not feel.

Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

During the Koizumi administration, I served as the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary as well as the Chief Cabinet Secretary.

Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.