I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its result.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

We fly with our dreams, we fall with our hesitations!

Part of his mind was screaming, but it was a distant one and easy to ignore.

You may delay your ambition, but never forget your ambition.

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.

When you give someone your hand, it needs to be clean.

That's the dream. Being on the U.S. National team and winning the World Cup. I'll take the win anyway I can get it.

Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries.

It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.

Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager.

During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.