I never plan for the future but wander into it with a smile on my face, hope in my heart, and the hair up on the nape of my neck.

Do not doubt the beauty of your heart.

Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world...

...the more we learn, the more we realize how much we don't know.

We make so many of our own troubles, from mere mishaps to disasters, by dwelling on the possibility of them until the possible becomes inevitable.

All death matters.""Only to the living.

The dead can be even more frustrating to deal with than are many of the living, which is astonishing when you consider it's the living who run the Department of Motor Vehicles.

If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge? Why would the effort matter? What would be the point? - Odd Thomas

Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive.

In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life.

I was like a thought slipping through the fissures...

War isn't hell. War is war, and Hell is hell, and of the two, war is a lot worse.

It is a moral travesty to give a woefully thirsty man a drink of water in a measuring cup.

I wonder if there's just a sense that we have nothing to learn from any Supreme Court justice, including the great Chief Justice John Marshall.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

All will be well, and every kind of thing will be well.

I think there's a lot more to pop than just sugarcoated indie pop. Maybe to me it's something that's accessible, catchy, something people can remember.

Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within.

The world is full up with the talented impersonators of the Devil!

You know, you try to move the Brussels bureaucracy, and unless you have some capacity to really break it, you can't move it. It just sits there and stares at you.

I'm on the road a lot so when I get some time to relax I definitely take advantage.