For writers - even sportswriters - bad news is always easier than good, since it is, after all, more familiar.

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys?

Possibly in the lobby she saw someone who reminded her too much of herself (that can happen to inexperienced travelers). Or worse. That no one there reminded her of anyone she ever knew.

We are past the end of things now, but I don't want to leave.

We do not, after all, deal in truths, only potentialities. Too much truth can be worse than death, and last longer.

The saved moment is the true art of love.

If you have just one person believe in you, you'll always find your way

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

No social system will bring us happiness health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.

When I began my humanitarian work, I understood that in order to gain credibility I needed patience, commitment and unwavering perseverance. I needed to ignore the skeptics.

We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure.

It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.

Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations?

It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.