Some choices are harder than they appear. You can never say yes to one thing without saying no to another.

It's like the seasons. When they start, you're one kind of person, and then when they end, you're somebody different.

I've learned to appreciate what I've got. I'm not going to waste an ounce of energy on sorting through the past or with worrying about the future. Life's too short for that.

Life's too short to play it safe sometimes. (If he feels something special about Emma, he should go for it.)

Some of the imperfections will be visible, but this house has been here a long time. I see no reason to cover up the dings and scars. We've all got 'em.

I'm proud of you. You could have run away, but you didn't. That's what most of us do when we have to face a giant.

I do not want to just read books I want to crawl inside them and live there.

A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.

The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.

Hubert Humphrey with kids"Be clear where America stands. Human brotherhood and equal opportunity for every man, woman, and child, we are committed to it, in America and around the world."

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Let us make it clear that we will never turn our backs on our steadfast friends in Israel, whose adherence to the democratic way must be admired by all friends of freedom.

As a musician, you never understand why people connect with certain songs.

One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self.

I don't even consider myself an impressionist, really.

I met my father for the first time when I was 28 years old. I made up my mind that when I had children, my children were going to know who their father was.