The hardest lies to detect are the ones surrounded by truth.

But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts.

But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows.

When you find someone who makes you smile and laugh, when you find someone who makes you feel safe…you shouldn’t let that person go just because you’re afraid.

I waited for a long time and there was nothing but the pain of wanting something I couldn't seem to find.

You don’t have to be sad to miss someone and wish they were still in your life.

Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It’s those that bring us grief that linger.

Love is always real, even when it doesn’t last.

All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people.

Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.

When everything changes we learn who we really are. What’s really important. What we want most. We discover the truth in moments of disarray.

Flowers for me are just things to give to a beatiful woman.

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.

History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.

I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be.

Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.

The more I have read the Bible and studied the life of Jesus, the more I have become convinced that Christianity spreads best not through force but through fascination.

The day I went into physics class it was death.

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!