Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.

Hands have their own language.

For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’re not the first to die.

I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

Every moment is the paradox of now or never.

For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

One quality of leaders and high achievers in every area seems to be a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

A tiny little wooden man [was] slowly ascending the steps to a real set of gallows, both perched on a box that read: Reusable Hangman — Spell It Or He’ll Swing!

At Kiel, as elsewhere, a day goes by somehow or other.

The thing about 'Star Trek' is that it is not judgmental. You can do what ever you want, within reason.

I don't want to be on the phone talking numbers and budget. I want to be creating a world.

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and natural gas in environmentally friendly ways.