How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence.

It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.

It often takes more courage to be a passenger than a driver.

Nathan, how can you stand playing the same piece over and over again?" And Grandpa Nate answered, "Why don't you ask me how I can stand making love to the same woman over and over again?

Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?

Biding one's time is a very different thing from patience.

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.