You make me lovely, and it's so lovely to be lovely to the one I love.

I just sat there letting that music cover me like a big, cozy blanket.

The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.

Sorry wastes time. You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier just to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for.

It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting.

We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.

Music did that to me, just like God was supposed to, because music seemed both magic and holy.

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone.

You need shoving, not pushing. You need to jump back on that camel. Otherwise you're going to stay up on the ledge you've made for yourself.

I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.

You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.

Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances for good and bad judgment.

All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were American.

Do you have any Greek in you? That was just a tactful way of asking if you're pregnant. If you're not, then let's break up.

I have three best friends in this world. What's surprising is that they also happen to be your (audience) three best friends. They are Bachpan (childhood), Jawani (Youth) and Budhapa (old age).

The world would become better off If people tried to become better. And people would become better If they stopped trying to become better off.

I abhor 'baby talk.' I speak to kids like I would any other person, and they seem to respond to it.

You don't help a depressed economy by giving control of its resources to politicians.

Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder and make suggestions.

I would not like it thought that I do not buy my own paperclips, sir. I enjoy owning my own paperclips. It means they are mine.

We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.