Each of us has a private Austen.

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.

Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.

The sunset you see is always better than the one you don’t. More stars are always better than less.

Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.

When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.

Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom.

In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.

No Utopia is Utopia for everyone

I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either.

My hope is in God.

If you have job, be grateful.

And when we have power- when you have power, Jae, you'll need to decide what to do with it. What kind of person you want to be. If you want to be like them.

The virtues of free enterprise can become distorted by greed & delusion.

Greatness in the making feels just like you feel right now. Time will soon tell.

As she stood in the darkened room and watched my sister and father, I knew one of things that heaven meant. I had a choice, and it was not to divide my family in my heart.

I'd rather make a mistake than do nothing.

I drive well! Says who your mom? No actually, she won't even get in the car with me.

A room is like a stage. If you see it without lighting, it can be the coldest place in the world.

Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.