I think you must make a few [mistakes]. Of you don't, you're probably thinking too much. That's the worst mistake you can make.

Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.

I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.

Don't believe everything you hear today

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.

All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.

The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.

I will be waiting by candlelight in our tree house of the mind.

Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

But God fears women even more that He fears the devil- and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Daring faith

If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can't explain this, but it means that these women, they were not sharing my solitude.

I love the idea of a beautiful neighborhood that represents the very best of American values, but also as a fun backdrop to some darker, deliciously sneaky things going on in people's lives.

Life's a short trip. You'll find out.

A wasted human being--that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion.

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands