That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you got left anyway.

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.

A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the indisputable last word.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.

One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.

a star dies in heaven every time you snatch away someone's dream.

Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.

To know and not to do, is not to know.

How you react to the issue, IS the issue.

If you cry "Forward " you must make plain in what direction to go.

I can go further and faster with someone coaching me than I can on my own.

I was not prepared for the actual process itself; having to go to the shop and having some molds done.

To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.

When your mind is tranquil and at peace with the universe, when it has become void of all thought - you become meditation.

Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best.

I accept my body. I accept how I am and make the best of what I am given.

Every one of us loves Pauline theology, but few of us want Pauline pain.