Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.

There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it.

Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back.

As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.

The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

And what do you believe?”A slow smile spread over his face. “I believe in you. You are my new beginning.

...I've returned and I look around me and think, I've missed my life. While I was off and alone, it went on here, without me, and I'm forever doomed to be a stranger in my own home.

Regrets are useless, " the Fool replied. "All you can do is start from where you are.

Tis the old wind in the old anger, But then it threshed another wood.

I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

And when I told my sons I might be in City of Ember, they said, 'Oh! You're gonna be the mayor?' And I hadn't even read the script yet.

When one historical period is replaced by another, there is always a group of people left over from the old society

If I had my life to live over again, I would just believe God.

At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw.

I guess God has a sense of humor, when he had a man that wanted to start his life as a priest, end up marrying a preacher.

We have to get rid of ISIS, have to get rid of ISIS. We have no choice.

Ah, the pretty whisperers! It was very well When the leaves were thick and green, awhile ago-- Leaves are secret-keepers; but since the last leaf fell There is nothing hidden from the eyes below.

Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.