“Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.”

It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged–the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

And in the end, we were all just humans, Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

I want to tell you about your heart— you’ve probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.

When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.

Singing kind of came out of nowhere.

Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.

My parents make sure we have everything we need so that we compete to the best of our abilities.

The camera cannot, but the photographer can.

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

I always knew I had something special.