Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

A lost person or article is still what it is, still valuable in itself, but in the wrong place, disconnected from its purpose and unable to be or do whatever it is intended to be or do.

An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else...

Life kept throwing me storms, but I kept finding rainbows.

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

We have seen the Democrat solution to an energy crisis; it's called California.

When I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.

I don't think I'm capable of making radical changes, but over a period of four or five years you can perceive very big changes, and they seem rather small at the time.

You are horror and beauty in rare combination.

Beautiful,' Jason exclaimed. 'Piper, you... you're a knockout.

You start making progress in life when you realize that you don't always have to resume where you left off.