There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme

When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting

Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.

That which yields is not always weak.

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.

All knowledge is worth having

The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

[R]eality and real people are too subtle and complicated for anybody's typewriter, even Tolstoy's, even yours, even mine.

Leadership is a process where a leader has a purpose oriented destination and lets the followers find the best way to get there with a common vision and goal.

We generally look around for what is not there fretting over it and thus letting go of what is there.

The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.

When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya!

I grew up in environment that had more women in science.

So many people have that relationship. The companionship. The connection. To our - to other beings, our pets. I hate to call them pets. But you know, to other creatures that we share our lives with.

You can't turn a "no" to a "yes" without a "maybe" in between.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

I used to be indecisive, now I'm not so sure.