The shackles of belief, when reinforced by fear, are difficult to break free from and rarely done.

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

I have Tourettes syndrome.

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

A poet can imagine an iceberg singing a melancholic song while the world leaders find it difficult to imagine proper solution to global warming.

The rich man cannot enter the kingdom of heaven because he is already there.

To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper.

I traveled all over for about 50 years, I love a lot of places and I've been a lot of places, but I just don't care to leave home.

I make decisions based on what I think is best for the country.

I've been in the bargain basement of the movie business.

Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!

Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.

I thought he wanted it, anyway," I say. "Not like this," Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real.

The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'