I pray for my children. That they stay safe and make good decisions. That they be happy, thoughtful, and caring human beings. That they have the strength to get up if they fall down.

Yeah, well all I can say is that a half truth is a still a while lie, ain't it...

Examine and know one's value before you allow much access into your life.Verandas have no door, but the rooms do.

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more - the feeling that I could last forever outlast the sea the earth and all men.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Cotton candy. Like eating a cloud of diabetes.

Giftedness is your accelerator; wisdom is your brake.

If any one element of French cooking can be called important, basic and essential, that element is soup.

Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.

If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.

I love Australia. My dream would be to have a place to live there and be able to commute back and forth

No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.