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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R amp&; D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

I have reservations about everything I do.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.

If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.

Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?