DNA tells you all the secrets of life, ’ he used to say. Except for one—how to live it.

Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either

Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.

Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?

I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.

Yeah. Sure. My brother's dead. My mother's insame. Hey, let's have a crepe.

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.

Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.

We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.

Elise?" He looked at her with a pleading, puppy-dog expression in his eyes."Yes?""I love you.

Don't give up your dreams.

People in L.A. think Im so posh. They think I live in Downton Abbey.

When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.

I don't watch the news, I don't care about politics, I don't care about other sports.

Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful methods and procedures, administered by impartial institutions.

The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.

Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.

The chaplain of the Senate does not pray for the Senate. He watches the Senate and prays for the country.