What you said about the sweetest pain? That fits us.

More than most, I know the pain of surviving.

. . . and I don’t expect him to suborn his life into mine any more than I would change my dreams for him. We’re not one soul, one being, however much we love each other.

For I need this scar over my heart to remind me. Crazy as it sounds, if I can bear the wound on my body, it lessens what I must carry on my soul. How he knew that about me, I cannot fathom.

Survival feels like cowardice.

He is not the same person as when wemet, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we’re closer than ever.

For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don’t matter as much aspersonal choice.

This guilt is a joke, and it’s exhausting to watch you martyr yourself.

I did a little film called Nina, a small role. I played a French girl who was a nurse to Nina Simone. Zoe Saldana plays Nina.

She doesn’t think she’s worthy to live. But she doesn’t realize, she is life.

Existence is prior to essence.

The Democrats' plan for 2006? Take the House and Senate and impeach the president. With our nation at war, is this the kind of Congress you want?

Communication is the root of marital success from which a strong union can grow, and noncommunicatio n is the rock on which the ship will bash out her keel.

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.

Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.

Earning money has a way of increasing financial intelligence quickly.

Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?

There is more magic in sin if it is not committed.