“When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.”

“Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.”

“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”

“Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.”

“There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”

“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”

“As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.”

“What a curious power words have.”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

“I know a man who drives 600 yards to work. I know a woman who gets in her car to go a quarter of a mile to a college gymnasium to walk on a treadmill, then complains passionately about the difficul...”

“Go for the hum.”

“Of the big five factors in happinessflexible schedule, imagination, diet, exercise, and sleepmy pick for the most important is exercise.”