The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.

Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life.

How far should a person go in the name of true love?

How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?

You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.

There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her.

He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives.

.. questions that had begun to creep into her thoughts whenever they we're together. When would he be ready? Would he ever be ready? And of course, why he wasn't ready?..

The last thing she'd wanted was anything as complicated as a relationship, for it felt as though there we're though complication in her life already.

What can you do when you're condemned to a place where every choice seems wrong - even the one you promised your lover you'd make?

At times, it almost felt like I was destined to take the trip, like all the people I met had somehow been waiting for me

If I never got to make a living doing what I loved, I'd still do it--for fun and for free.

every good artist paints what he is

What I was caught up in, I dimly understood, was the embodiment of history

One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.

I don't know what's wrong with my television set. I was getting C-Span and the Home Shopping Network on the same station. I actually bought a congressman.

How was I to know idiocy was only a temporary condition, especially in your case? It never has been before!

The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes.

Leadership is about making decisions with the information you have, not the information people will have 12 years later, i kind of feel sorry for my friend Jeb Bush.

I was built with a love of the night and the unquiet coffin.

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.