You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.

I never hear anything about education. Education - I guess it's just not sexy enough. And everybody claims to love their children and our children are the most important thing, but if that's the case, how come we never hear more about education as an election issue?

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right? Like this?" He made a fist. "Why? Because a baby not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say the whole world is mine. But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned his lesson." "What lesson?" I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. "We can take nothing with us.

But common sense has no place in first love and never has.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.