It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.