Good or bad, if you’re not “normal, ” you can’t have a normal relationship. If you are different, people will relate to you differently.

Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.

There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment - no less real but completely different. She had both.

Darling, if I take your breath away, I will give you mine.

We love because we can lose. If there was no threat of separation, no death to shake us to our core, we probably wouldn't love much at all.

Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be the indefinable - perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all.

Even "meant to be" takes work.

I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.

Am I a friend or a prospect? Imagine how much kinder life would be if people put as much effort into befriending others instead of trying to sell them something.

Where are the memories that held us together? Where are the dreams that were yet to come? I'm afraid to be happy. I shouldn't be happy. If I'm happy without you does that mean I've told you goodbye?

One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope.

I'm no communist.I'm a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.

Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight.'

The moment you realize you are not present, you are present.

If I had to run a company on three measures, those measures would be customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction and cash flow.

When you have the feeling that anything’s possible, sometimes you wind up acting on it.

The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.

Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles.

Love is not a plant of slow growth.

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.

Democracy gives the aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be considered tyranny.