Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.

Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.

A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.

A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.

There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.

It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.

Whatever you do, in the privacy of your own rain shower, is your own business

A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water

nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.

Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification.

Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.

As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.

Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.

Eliminating wickedness is a different project from eliminating violence. Eliminating violence - the destruction associated with wickedness - is a practical program that I'm very willing to pursue.

They misunderstand us, they unwittingly belittle us, they do something that they think is nice that instead just makes us mad. And those are the good ones.

Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.

Apparently, I said what a lot of people are thinking and a lot of people have thanked me.

Victories in life come through our ability to work around and over the obstacles that cross our path. We grow stronger as we climb our own mountains.

If the character has the motivation to dance round trees, then I will dance round trees. If the motivation is strong enough, then I'll fly to the moon.