The purpose of life is to get as close as we can to other people.

The worst pain in our lives comes from the mistakes we refuse to acknowledge--the things we've done that are so our of harmony with who we are that we can't bear to look at them.

The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to be the truth.

Never go down to the darkest room. Stay far away from the rotting coffin. If you want to live through the night, let the devil sleep.

The best advice will come from the person who has no personal interest in the matter.

It is neither right nor safe to go against my conscience.

. . . [The Judicial Branch] may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.

Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.

My true self contains every possibility.

I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.

If small business goes, big business does not have any future except to become the economic arm of a totalitarian state.

I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read.

President Bush says we've turned the corner in Iraq. What is that, about 16 corners we've turned? I think they call that running in circles.

Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind