I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which I still have-battered and falling to pieces) became more precious to me than any Bible.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.

Your vehicle of leadership is fueled by your willingness to learn. You can't lead if you can't learn!

falling is MY passion, you don't have to do the same.

Men as a class appear to be "at risk, " maybe even at high risk.

A lot of times if you go to counseling you find out the thing we think are big issues to our partner is not near as big as we think it is.

Desire is an attempt to feel the void.

But if they don't exist, how can a man see them?

The earth is blue like an orange.

He needs both patience and speed.

I feel the madness creeping slowly. Loved by many I'm still lonely.