After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'.

Slight changes simply make a blur.

The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said. The chances, the changes are all yours to make. The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!

Knowledge is a light burden. Ignorance...a heavy bliss.

We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.

There are currently more political parties in Iraq than unbombed buildings to hold them.

It wasn't an architect or a designer who invented objects, but an artisan.

When I write a novel I put into play all the information inside me. It might be Japanese information or it might be Western; I don't draw a distinction between the two.

The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months.

Let us pray for peace in Africa, especially in the Central African Republic and in South Sudan.