I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.

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!

Creativity is nature. Nature is creativity.

What a sacred journey?

Rubbing absently at my temple, I do declare this woman leaves me flabbergasted and tongue tied.

The hearts of the noble are the graves of confidences.

He looks like something that fell out of a deck of cards!

Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.

God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning.

If you lose a couple of inches off your stomach, your business down there will look a lot longer.

Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities.

But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I'm not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum.