"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

"It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget."

"Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it."

"Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves."

"The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world."

"The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom."

"Justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The paradox of freedom is that the essence of humanity is our ability to connect."