Even though it runs counter to popular belief, Life's critical decisions are usually made in the heart and only later ratified by the brain.

The voice of reason is inaudible to irrational people.

To have meaning, our lives require both passion and purpose. A life without passion is like a furnace without fuel, and without purpose, like a ship without a rudder.

Never let the worst of you get the best of you.

Sometimes I wonder which is worse - confrontational people who are afraid of caring or caring people who are afraid of confrontation.

It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.

Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom.

When all things are considered, happiness is a better indicator of success than success has ever been of happiness.

The secret of a successful relationship is avoiding the unforgivable and forgiving the unavoidable.

Throughout history, most of the wrongs of the world have resulted from people absolutely sure they were in the right.

If only people fought undeserved praise as much as they do unfair criticism.

Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it.

There is no such thing as happy music.

Dying should come easy: like a freight train you don't hear when your back is turned.

He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of mind.

I don't watch something just because it's a specific genre.

They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!

When I'm carried away, isn't it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth?

The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.

An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious.

The hyperfast-moving, wired-up, reengineered, quality-obsessed organization will succeed or fail on the strength of the trust that its managers place in the folks working on the front line.