An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

One of the hardest things to teach a child is that truth is more important than consequences.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

There are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.

Patience is never more important than when you are at the edge of losing it.

Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered.

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.

Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.

Everyone should keep a dream journal, did you know that?

The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things

The absent are always wrong.

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm.

I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.

What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.

Sometimes I'll listen to a lyric and I'll be so pissed off that I didn't write it.

As you'll know yourself, there are these moments when you're writing a book when one remark or moment will pull everything together and you'll think, "That's it. I've got what I need."

Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.