I think I’m dying to get to know a particular guy. Then he opens his mouth and ruins it.

What do you do with your anger when the person you're mad at goes off and dies? Bury it? Bury it inside you?

The problem for me is that I can't ever really see who Gregory is, any more than I can see what a mirror by itself looks like, because he reflects whoever's around him.

Some people fall head over heels. Other people begin to fall without even knowing it—love grows like a spring flower beneath last autumn’s leaves and catches them by surprise.

I glanced up at him. "I love things that are beautiful when you don't expect them to be.

...you canʹt always choose how you love a person. Love isnʹt logical or fair. It just happens.

When you love someone, its never over. You move on, because you have to but you take them with you in your heart

People fear anyone who differs from what is considered normal, and in a small town the idea of normal can be as narrow as the streets.

Words are precious things meant to create, to imagine, to dream with.

old grudges and bitterness always hurt the individual more than the one whom he believes injured him.

Creativity is no excuse for obnoxious behavior

To embrace an attitude of humility is to free myself from myself. And that is likely the great liberation of all.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

Winning isn't imperative, but getting tougher in the fourth quarter is.

We are all eaters of souls.

I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.

... clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any philosophic comforting.

Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.

I've learned that every great achievement was once considered impossible

Everything is about accountability to the American people, accountability of the executive branch ... [and] accountability of the oversight of the Congress.

I saw thousands of pumpkins last night come floating in on the tide, bumping up against the rocks and rolling up on the beaches; it must be Halloween in the sea