Like any dealer he was watching for the card that is so high and wild he'll never need to deal another. He was just some Joseph looking for a manger.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.

We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.

You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

a dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. a man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.

You are not showing her my baby pictures!” He sounded horrified, which made me laugh. “Come on, Evan, ” I teased with a laughing smile, “you were adorable.

Every transaction has its process. Until you submit to it, you will always be living below potential.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

And these gems of Heav'n, her starry train.

Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse.

Countries keep on building higher and higher buildings, instead of building higher and higher men!

I've been very lucky to have had a supportive family, a great education, enormous opportunity and challenge.

If love is blind, patriotism has lost all five senses.