I asked, "How can anyone who really knows me ever love me?" only to discover that it was the only way anyone ever would.
"It's not easy -- loving someone through the chinks in their armor -- and we seldom appreciate enough the person we ask it of."
"To truly know someone is to know the thing they never speak of -- and to recognize the silences that speak of it."
"There are memories I choose not to live with, although we occasionally walk the same beach."
"If everyone were a perfectionist, there would never have been an opening night on Broadway."
"It is a rare person who can distinguish a purpose in life from the side effects of having been born."
"A Supreme Court justice can only be one of the following: liberal, conservative or just."
"If you have never lied to protect your honor, then you may call yourself honorable."
"Nothing runs out sooner than time to spare."
"On either side of faith lie certainty and doubt. Of the two, certainty is the greater enemy of faith."
"It is not so much that we accept reality as that we accept a limiting perception of things that then becomes our reality. Would it not be better to see reality as possibility, not something to accept but to explore, a perception not of constraints but of opportunity?"
"The true history of any era is of what human ingenuity accomplished while some would-be conqueror was distracting historians."
"No matter how devoted you are to cold, hard fact, you should always allow yourself enough religious faith to recognize your blessings."
