I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.

...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.

If swans weren't real myths'd make up.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

Pruned my subconscious. Discovered new shoots.

In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.

Being needed is a great thing. Maybe the great thing.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness not to sin offers only punishment.

Ricky Nelson... I couldn't believe it when he died. He was a great rock star.

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.

According to a Wall Street Journal article some 59 percent of Americans don t own a single book. Not a cookbook or even the Bible.

Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars.

History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.