I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

He is but as the stubble of the field, and yet he has no beard.

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.

We dream that we're all different. The reality is that we're all not.

If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.

Because even though you're dating five other women, I think I'm cheating on you.

When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.

Design Star' was incredible, and I didn't think it could get any better, and then 'Color Splash' happened.

There are a lot of lessons that you learn, and you have to learn them quickly if you want to be competitive at this top level.

Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.

Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a degree of tyranny.

One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?