Suffering makes you deep. Travel makes you broad. In case I get my pick, I'd rather travel.

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.

Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.

I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.

I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

READ! Books can be as delicious as hot-fudge sundaes, as funny as clowns, as exciting as a baseball game that's tied in the 9th inning, and as beautiful as the best sunset you ever saw.

Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Faith is full force.

One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.

Some situations feel worst in our life, but they are the best lessons for life.

You could string a hundred endless days together, My soul would find no comfort from this pain.You laugh at my tale? You may be educatedBut you haven’t learned to love till you’re insane

Your wealth is where your friends are.

As long as I take the responsibility of the choice, I have to make the choice that is as right as possible.

I never was a very good singer.

What kind of people do we wish to become, and how do we know an American when we see one? Is it possible to pursue a common purpose without a common history or a standard text?

I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me.

We should have a very limited federal government.