Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

Every child must be taught how to think, read and write.

We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.

A man of forty-five can consider himself still young till the moment comes when he realises that he has children old enough to fall in love.

Miniature Emilie came along. Lincoln could tell she was watching him, but he tried not to encourage her. He didn't want to betray Beth. They wouldn't let you ride Splash Mountain, he thought.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

I never did have a team that I watched in my younger days

I just like TV. I think to me, it replaced the fireplace when I was a child. They took the fire away and they put a TV in instead and I got hooked on it.

My parents were exclude from rights as farm workers, though that has to change.

Being nervous isn't bad. It just means something important is happening.

No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely.