I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

Women think that they can make sad things go away by knowing the reason that they happened.

Gratitude is a state of mind that inherently recognizes interdependence with the external world, whether it be other humans, nature, the sacred, or a combination of these.

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

No one ever was the poorer for giving

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

Chemistry is a gibberish of Latin and German; but in Leibig's hands it becomes a powerful language.

I started young but at every turn, listening provided a foundation for my leadership. I can say categorically that all the really excellent leaders I have known were, in my view, excellent listeners.

I don't want to tell them what to take away from a movie, I think a movie should tell that.

I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.