It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

The day of individual happiness has passed

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

A jug fills drop by drop.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.