I didn’t care…about heroes who could read minds or walk through walls or do magic. The heroes I liked had courage and knew more real stuff than those who opposed them.

I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.

Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it's best to be suspicious of it. It's probably not worth much.

A rocket won't fly unless somebody lights the fuse!

I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother.

There are two things every woman really wants: one, she wants to know that a man really loves her, and two, that he isn't going to stop.

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.

A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite work that way.

I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God's greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?

Always I try to write about people. People are interested in other people always.

To be a good pastor one must have the wisdom of a Solomon, the intuition of a Newton, the patience of Job, the thinking faculties of an Einstein, and a compassion likened unto the Son of God.

And we are put on earth a little space, so that we may learn to love for we can't do great things, only small things with great love.

Audience engagement is critical to the survival of your brand

It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to be happy.

I feel very English in a suit. There's something about being in a suit abroad, particularly in America, that feels empowering.

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent

Perhaps fortunately, no one has ever found out what it would be like to have all his wishes fulfilled.

To hope is to see with the eye of the heart.