Reformed rakes often make the best husbands

You can't live your life to suit other people. The harder you try, the more restrictions they'll put on you just for the fun of seeing you jump through their hoops.

You will soon discover that in matters of the heart, memories are much kinder than reality

Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else.

Why did happy memories fade and blur until one could scarcely recall them at all, while horrible memories seemed to retain their blinding clarity and painful sharpness?

Some people feel love in their hearts, Julie. Some of us feel it all way into our souls. We're the ones who can't forget.

Everything wrong I've ever done has always seemed like the right thing to do at the time.

True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.

Looking at you has been my favorite pastime from the moment you asked me to describe your face," he said solemnly, looking straight into her eyes.

How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it

The groom always smiles proudly because he's convinced he's accomplished something quite wonderful. The bride smiles because she's been able to convince him of it.

A mind cluttered with past thoughts, old conversations and unhealed wounds can only serve to drag us down and compromise our ability to live free.

Death was constant, unprejudiced to age, race, or creed.

When I was in Washington, I would usually get home from the Capitol at about 7:30 or 8, and I would try to write as much as possible. It was almost all in the wee hours.

Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond of secrecy.

I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.

It does not matter whether we burn fossil fuels with malice or with love. As far as the atmosphere is concerned, it is not concerned. It is a collection of gases.

Eighty percent of everything ever built in America has been built in the last 50 years, and most of it is depressing, brutal, ugly, unhealthy, and spiritually degrading.

I think it's a slippery slope to fabricate a different life.

Once the government runs out of foreign and private sector bidders for new Treasurys, the Federal Reserve will be the only buyer, and the hyper-inflation cat will be completely out of the bag.

The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind.