I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

I have a sofa on which I never nap, big windows with an ocean view that I rarely see because I keep the pleated shades down at all times while working. I know I'm a potential slacker, so I don't tempt myself.

The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.

I believe that we carry within us a divinely inspired moral imperative to love ... We have within us the ability to change for the better and to find dignity as individuals rather than as drones in one mass movement or another. We have the ability to love, the need to be loved, and the willingness to put our own lives on the line to protect those we love, and it is in these aspects of ourselves that we can glimpse the face of God; and through the exercise of these qualities, we come to a Godlike state.

These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings - and then ended up with none that were genuine.