I am not here to make you feel better, I am just here to make you feel worse

The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.

Time flies when you're falling down"...(not from a book, it's a lyric)

Always spend your time on things that add value and purpose to your life

I let the American people down.

The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing.

Children do not grow up all of a piece; look for the child of seven, especially to take many backward glances at the way he has come, while bounds and leaps unevenly ahead in his growth.

Life is not only full of sound and fury. It also has butterflies, flowers, art.

Even though I have never had an abrupt conversion experience, religion has been real to me and closely knitted to life. In fact the two cannot be separated; religion for me is life.

Knowledge was always the power that kept the Universe in its place and the stars turning in their orbits.

You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.

I've always enjoyed doing dishes. Maybe it was the fashionable yellow gloves that I loved so much. It's weird, I know, but I find cleaning cathartic.

The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now.