Often it’s not we who shape words, but the words we use that shape us.

We cannot decide to love. We cannot compel anyone to love us. There's no secret recipe, only love itself. And we are at its mercy--there's nothing we can do.

It takes only one word to hurt a woman, a matter of seconds, one stupid, impatient blow of the crop. But winning back her trust takes years. And sometimes there isn't the time.

Oh, merciless freedom, you continue to overwhelm me! You demand that I challenge myself and feel ashamed, and yet continue to feel so outrageously proud to live a life full of my desires.

There are women who only look at another woman's shoes and never at her face.And others who always look women in the face and only occasionally at their shoes.

Reading makes you impudent. Oh yes, unknown father, so it does.

We are loved if we love, another truth we always seem to forget. ...Loving requires so much courage and so little expectation.

I'm looking for what I was capable of before... Or to be more precise, I'm trying to see whether I'm still capable of it.

And yes, being lovesick is like being in mourning. Because you die, because your future dies and you with it...There is a hurting time. It lasts for so long. But it gets better. I know that now.

It's amazing how close you are to your essential self as a kid, he thought, and how far from it you drift the more you strive to be loved.

Time. It rubs the rough edges that hurt us smooth.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

I knew I was drunk. I felt sophisticated and couldn't pronounce it.

Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.

Death is an engineering problem.

You have Obama that wants to play golf instead of deal with people.

American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, "Am I my brother's keeper?

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living

Move forward and let others do the same. Simple. This is a guiding principle everyone should have.

Take that bone out of your nose and call me back (to an African American female caller).