Belief in mysteries, any manner of mysteries, is the only lasting luxury in life.

If you try to make your circle closed and exclusively yours, it never grows very much. Only a circle that has lots of room for anybody who needs it has enough spare space to hold any real magic.

Know all the Questions, but not the Answers Look for the Different, instead of the Same Never Walk where there's room for Running Don't do anything that can't be a Game

Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley.

Nothing's real unless you want it to be, and anything can be real if you want it to enough; so real doesn't really mean anything.

It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore.

The answers aren't important really... What's important is- knowing all the questions.

We all invite our own devils, and we must exorcise our own.

Eleven would have been the best time. Eleven is just about the best age for almost everything.

Know all the Questions, but not the AnswersLook for the Different, instead of the SameNever Walk where there's room for RunningDon't do anything that can't be a Game

Belonging to a place isn't nearly as necessary as belonging to people you love and who love you and need you.

Guns are like men—only useful for a little while. They can go off at a moment's notice when you don't want them to and they make a lot of damn fool noise doing it.

Thales was asked what was most difficult to man he answered: "To know one's self."

It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister.

... my daughter McKenna thought I sang with the Everly Brothers ... I said, 'no I was one of the Righteous Brothers' and she said 'didn't they invent the airplane?'

We don't really heal anything; we simply let it go.

In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect.

She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.

There is an implied warranty that a commissioned work should last a lifetime. There is to be no charge.

Faith can remove a mountain, but doubt can put it back in place again