Hope is like yeast, you know, rising under warmth.

Love is a strange fact - it hopes all things, believes all things, endures all things. It makes no sense at all.

Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.

Fair is whatever God wants to do.

I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.

Pride is the rope God allows us all.

It is one thing to be sick of your own infirmities and another to understand that the people you love most are sick of them also. You are very near then to being friendless in the world.

Is there a single person on whom I can press belief? No sir. All I can do is say, Here's how it went. Here's what I saw. I've been there and am going back. Make of it what you will.

You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sins, you know, and cry tears while doing it that are genuine as any.

When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth.

So thoughtlessly we sling on our destinies.

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.

Denial is a useful defense mechanism until it's not.

Made a wrong turn.ones or twice.

He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo.Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic.Nothing is more sublime.

Money is all about opportunity cost. Every time you spend on something, that's something you can't spend on something else.

Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.

Giving is just one way of expressing that God has been good to you and will continue to do so through your being good to others.

No one - absolutely no one - is above the law.

I hereby resign this office of president of the United States.