This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

It takes someone very special to help you forget someone very special.

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.

Sometimes I ask myself what would I be if Jenny were alive. And then I answer : I would also be alive." - Oliver.

And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.

Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory

Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.

I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.

What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?

I'm not afraid of storms for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

I won't live to see the death-with-dignity movement reach critical mass, but I call on you to carry it forward.

Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness.

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky room.

Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company.

the uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.

Oh, I know I can sing. What I really want to be is an actress.

Everything interests me.