He would never need a knife to spread a pat of butter on his toast. That smile would quickly melt it.

Strange how the deepest part of us isn't able to speak more clearly to the part of us that lives only here in the shallows of the world.

Remember, there are cookies waiting here for you.

In eighty-six years, child, I've learned the world is a far more mysterious place than most people realize and that every moment of life is woven through with meaning.

Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well.

Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires...

But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern

Every journey has a destination, known or unknown.

If patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives — and they do — then the law of harmony insists that the most harmonious of all patterns, circles within circles, will most often assert itself.

The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded.

To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than not.

Try to turn as many soft, aspirational goals as possible into success criteria, and make them specific enough that you can actually tell whether or not you've met them.

Loneliness teaches and shows you the real and unreal and such things that one can never understand and even imagine living with others.

My body needs laughter as much as it needs tears. Both are cleansers of stress.

There's nothing that can defy the law of movement. Everything was created to move including the biggest of our mountains.

There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that's kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem like the characters are really there.

I've figured out that life in general is a team effort; it's a team game.

It’s always summer somewhere.

I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.

We don't help people by showing them our trophies. We help them by showing them our scars.

I have the one person I could ever love in this world. Now I must work to be a person worthy of that.