I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.

If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.

You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.

Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.

One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.

You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.

But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.

The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.

When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.

All this time I've just wanted to be blonde, beautiful and 5 feet 2 inches tall.

It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.

I know it's not very masculine to say the moon is beautiful...but it is!

And then adds with a laugh, 'but in retrospect I think he may have been more sophisticated than we were.'

Feeling "comfortable" is the short path to annihilation.

The casualities seemed to go on and on. Just when I thought I was done losing her, I would find yet another way to love her all over again.

I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

Galileo was challenged because he declared a theory to be a fact and argued with the Church about the genuine meaning of the Bible.

The only thing I can't stand more than seeing something done wrong is seeing it done slowly.