He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side.

...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.

True love is supposed to make you into a better person-uplift you.

Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past

and more important, did he love me as much as he once loved me?

After a certain age, and even if we develop in quite different ways, the more we become ourselves, the more our family traits are accentuated.

Flow with change or be dragged.

When people say 'let's do something about it', they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.

I was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world.

By all accounts, the senate race I ran in was a quality race in the wrong year.

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.

Whether I played marbles, whether I played football or slam anything else, I wanted to excel.