I've attempted to flood the path with light where I could, and where I could not I've wanted at least to hold up a candle so that others coming this way might not stumble too painfully.

Today we fight. Tomorrow we fight. The day after, we fight. And if this disease plans on whipping us, it better bring a lunch, 'cause it's gonna have a long day doing it.

How incredibly far our lives drift from where we knew with all certainty they would go. How little today resembles what yesterday thought it would look like.

I will bear this grief, I will endure it. I will reach a point where it doesn't kick me down an abyss whenever I turn my back on it.

How can it be that there is such a colossal gap between what we think we know about grief and mourning and what we actually find out when it comes to us?

A kind of Providence keeps us blind to the intensity of suffering so as to keep us sane, until that day when the suffering is our own or that of someone we love beyond imagining.

He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

A man can laugh while he suffers.

I dont like being told someones interpretation of something that I do.

My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies. My mother, more accurately, assumed that I was the bad influence.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!

Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.