Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.

All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

(Da) "Sorry, Son, what was that? I was too busy ignoring you."(Later) "Sorry, Son, I missed that, " Ma said. "Ignoring you can be a full-time job.

I'm very confident that Nick Hornby always gets it right as a writer. He has the vernacular and passion. He is adroit and dry, and balances humor with the humanity of life.

Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.

Silence makes me feel vulnerable.

A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.

I wonder whether there is such a thing as critical art. I suppose there are portraits of people who could destroy you.

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

Pakistan is an old ally of the United States.

I didn't leave business school to go bankrupt.