"Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is."

"The only one who can tell you 'you can't' is you. And you don't have to listen."

"The time has come for all good men to rise above principle."

"All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind."

"In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day."

"[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket."

"Nothing is beautiful except the abnormal; and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm."

"You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever 'the old' means for you."

"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."

"My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow."