Yesterday was a beautiful tune on the lips of life and today is a silent secret.

Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.

jace's clothes had been clean, stylish, ordinary. Sebastian had been wearing a long black wool trench coat that had looked expensive. Like an evil Burbeery ad, Simon said when she was done.

We can enjoy a self-assurance that doesn't depend on the state of things outside ourselves, be it downturns or booms or whatever.

The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye

Love is the shortcut to meditation. Above thought is love, and within and below thought is love. Love is a ladder that we can climb through thought.

The pleasure and value of every walk or journey we take may be doubled to us by carefully noting down the impressions it makes upon us.

One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence.

J.D. nodded. Yes, yes, fine, thank you. Nice attitude, by the way. Like boss, like secretary.

I'm really happy for [David Petraeus]. He's exceptionally talented.

I always wanted to direct movies. That's what I set out to do. When I was a little kid I just dreamed of making movies, and I went to film school [at Northwestern University].