Every human being has a fascinating existence, with a big cast of good and evil characters in each. And almost always, somewhere along the way, magic.

Once you have made a decision and there is no turning back, acceptance is the only comfort.

Remember,even if we can't see them, those we love are always with us.

I am at the stage of my life everyone dreads - that of filling my days with the past, because there is little future left.

And what's wrong with dimming the harsh reality of life a little, anyway? In essence, being alive is a bloody long and hard walk to death. Why not make it as pleasant along the way as you can?

It's amazing how beauty can mask so many flaws

When I loose my faith in Human nature, I put my faith in Nature-

She pulled off Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and settled down in a comfortable leather chair by the fire to read.

The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.

Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize.

Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)

If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is to the physical body.

I still hope. I wouldn't be in this position if I didn't. I love the church. I love the Bible. But I think we're in a time where we're desperately in need of a great reformation.

I don't think ultimately presidents are judged by crowd sizes at their inauguration. I think they're judged by their accomplishments.

in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.

The reality is people are going to steal the record instead of buying it. It's kind of a cancer in the industry where people will just use a streaming service and then won't buy the record.

Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women.

We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.