Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?

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!

The soul of our civilization depends upon the civilization of our soul. The imagination of our culture calls for a culture of the imagination.

When my mind plays tricks on me I can deal. But when my mind plays tricks on my mind I can not tell what's real

In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.

Some days I regret wording things the way I did in the heat of the moment.

To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.

Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.

I do like the idea of pulling in different producers to get new perspectives. That's what I did with Vows and I feel it just gives variety and makes for a more exciting journey for the listener.

O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.

Ben Smith's quick-hit campaign 'scoops' are about as viral as cat videos. That fits with Buzzfeed.