The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us.

Hands have their own language.

For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’re not the first to die.

I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

Every moment is the paradox of now or never.

For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

Too much time is wasted listening to the noise of the mind - and too little is spent living from the love and power of the heart.

If a man can't learn from sorrow he can't learn from anything.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles but most of them never happened.

I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up.

A woman needs to know about blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol. And she needs to know the kinds of things she can do to stay healthy.

Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

Women all live a double standard.

Play for one another, and play the right way. The right way is believing in what's on your chest and not what's on your back.

I have a very big sweet tooth and I love treating myself to something that I wouldn't necessarily eat during the tournament such as a nice-sized cake.

Things are never as good as you think they are or ever as bad as you think they are.