Iverson glanced down at my white-knuckled grip, then at my eyes. A hint of a smile more subtle than a single flick of snow crossed his face, and his eyes nodded approval.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Girls are always complaining that they can never meet a nice guy. Nice guys are everywhere. The problem isn’t that there aren't any nice guys, the problem is that all of the nice guys are ugly.

[In the aftermath of death] Small talk feels too small, big talk too enormous.

It's about paying attention to the little things, the details... Constantly rediscovering your partner, knowing there's a way out of any crisis.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?

Now I take the summer off, relax, and I know that at the end of July we're gonna start another season.

I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.

Circumstances do not make you what you are, they reveal what you are.

The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.