This life of ours can feel an awful lot like waiting.

People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find...

Something inexorable seeds itself in the place of your origin. You can never escape the bonds of family history, no matter how far you travel.

It's painful to hold out hope for the things that once brought you joy. You have to find ways to make yourself forget.

My heart is shattered, an all that's left are jagged shards.

I remember her words to me when I left school: Your mind will be your comfort. It is, sometimes. And sometimes it isn't.

I couldn't have imagined how much more there was to lose.

I ... am left with the lingering feeling that the places we go in our minds to find comfort have little to do with where our bodies go.

The older I get, the more I believe that the greatest kindness is acceptance.

To get it all done I have to dim my brain, turn it down by notches like the flat-turn knob on a gas lantern, leaving only a nub of flame.

Do our natures dictate the choices we make, I wonder, or do we choose to live a certain way because of circumstances beyond our control?

Treat yourself like someone who is amazingly special. You are special!

There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time. That's true of all types of consumer electronics.

Judges are but men and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality give it whatever other name you please.

Always remember that your success begins inside you: If you can't see it first, no one else ever will.

Britain is a very small country with a very large press.

I've tried to use the recognition as validation that I'm doing the kind of work that people are interested in and to feel that my work is a contribution.

I think obsessions happen because you're trying to understand something or some urge.

As President, I would work toward international creation of a new world order.

Remember: courage, unused, diminishes. Commitment, unexercised, wanes. Love, unshared, dissipates.

I wonder what it's like out there?