The ability to keep your mouth shut is usually a sign of intelligence

A second can feel like forever if what follows is heartbreak.

When you care about other people, it takes the spotlight off your own drama.

All reality is a blender where hopes and dreams are mixed with fear and despair.

I somehow make it through the first month. I dress and brush my teeth when they tell me to. And I experience the hollow feeling of complete loss, which is emptiness.

If you're lost, you might need to swim against the tide.

What we expect rarely occurs; what we don't expect is what happens.

Endings are always the beginnings of something else

It has been my experience that rewarding and heartbreaking often go hand in hand.

I'm putting my place in the universe into perspective. I'm stardust. I'm golden brown. I'm just one small bit in a vast expanse.

I'll be ready. I'm not sure for what exactly. But maybe that's what being ready really means.

That August, Elodie Selkirk became the latest lady in Paris to order a coin-operated boy.

Those who serve a cause are not those who love that cause. They are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it - except in the case of the very purest and they are rare.

I'll never stop working. I want to die in the saddle. A day is wasted for me if I haven't done something even mildly creative.

In a Town like Twin Peaks noone is innocent

When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'-ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.

Streams and mountains never stay the same.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying. . . .

The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

Florida was invented for Addison Mizner's little brother.