Nature creates curved lines while humans create straight lines.

Reality is cruel. All of the naivete is going to be removed. Reality is always changing, and it is always unpredictable. All of the balance is going to be destroyed.

Reality is complicated. There is no justification for all of the hasty conclusions.

A lion never loses sleep over a sheep's sentiments.

I wonder: instead of retreating and hiding, instead of pining for the way it was, what if I accept the way it is? This strikes me as both the most obvious thing in the world and the most profound.

Giving is the highest expression of potency.

Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral.

Figure out what past efforts amounted to nothing and label them your "not to do" list. Post the list where you'll see it.

And now with Argentina out, they will be on the plane home with France

Well, what I want them to know is, just like John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa, that's the kind of spirit that I have, too.

Washington DC is corporate-occupied territory.

When a man takes a woman for granted, he still looks for reassurance that she is still right there.