There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?

I never liked to be pigeon-holed and I never liked people to think that they know who I am. I like to keep people guessing.

I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.

Storm is prerequisite to mental gain

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.

When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.

Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.

Remembering is the opposite of being here now; it's being there now.

It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies.