I guess some stories do not need telling.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

It is not by man's power that you are here, but by a greater Power. That Power will stay with you.

My dad had once told me a definition of faith and I had not forgotten it: 'Faith is to believe something you do not see. The result of that faith is to see what you believed'.

All great movies have one thing in common: every frame of every scene could stand alone as a work of art. Why should it be different in a book?

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.

The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.

We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white.

Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.

This is politics. People in power never have to play by the same rules.