I've never understood the desire for books with matched bindings. You don't go through life looking for sets of matched people, and books are just as individual.

Ever poised on that cusp between past and future, we tie memories to souvenirs like string to trees along life’s path, marking the trail in case we lose ourselves around a bend of tomorrow’s road.

Optimism is life with sprinkles on top.

To write is human, to receive a letter: Devine!

Half is better than none unless it be of a wit.

Autumn flings her fiery cloak over the sumac, beech and oak.

It’s like my whole life my left ring finger has been lacking something, and finally it feels complete.

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.

You've got to have faith. You've got to begin to continue to hope and not give up on others.

Grace. Loss. Fortune. Hardship. Victory. Sometimes the worst seat is best seat in the house and it comes as a result of leading.

Silence. There are times it's the only thing I want and I wonder how I'll ever go back to the world of noise and distraction.

I have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back into their realistic ponds.

You want to provide for your family, of course, but you also want them to come along on the journey with you. I haven't achieved all I want to with my life, so I need to continue to push myself.

I'm glad I took the leap away from acting into going behind the camera because it's much more satisfying - I love acting and I still do, but it's much more satisfying to be able to make the stuff.

We need a dedicated minority who, like the apostles of old, are willing to be called the scum of the earth and a spectacle to the world for the scandal of the cross.

Beauty is a fact, and it can change with time. Something ugly in the morning can become beautiful in the evening.