I don't understand how the pain of losing him can be a pale shadow in comparison to the pain of finding him again.

Now I understand - how sleep allows you to forget, but your pain wakes with the dawn, worse because for a split second you don't remember what you've suffered.

But recognizing the ridiculousness of an emotion and being able to master it are two very different things, I'm finding.

And maybe that's love, too - feeling the other person's hurts like your own.

No one controls who we turn into but us.

The scars are just something that happened to me. They aren't me. Not anymore.

You don't get to be the president of anything if you have bad manners.

Most Americans watch Friends rather than having friends.

I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

I do hope that all nations can live in complete security and welfare.

Something to remember, that: cats for missiles.

There is probably no moment more appalling than that in which the tongue comes suddenly upon the ragged edge of a space from which the old familiar filling has disappeared.

I get to be goofy and quirky and sweet at the same time.

Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.