Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

Don't think or judge, just listen.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.

Silence is so freaking loud

It was great. Freedom even the imagined kind always is.

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.

But as i lay there, it only seemes like silence filling my ears. And the thing was, it was so freaking loud.

If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don’t change because of it. It’s just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past.

The people who know you best can be risker, because the words they say and things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well.

Leaders prioritize what they want.

Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.

Try to avoid getting involved with somebody who's gonna need killing before it's over. It may seem to you that that narrows the field somewhat, but be diligent.

I didn’t say you weren’t smart. I said you were stupid.”“I guess I’m too dumb to see the difference.

I never saw any lamp shining more brilliantly than the lamp of silence.

For the benefit of those of you who have real jobs and are not involved in the news business, I should first explain that . . .

To deceive ones selfe is very easie.

I'd love to see some animals in their natural habitat - as long as those animals are being well looked after.

People in Washington need to put their feet in the shoes of working Americans.

An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.