If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.

Slight changes simply make a blur.

The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said. The chances, the changes are all yours to make. The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!

I’m going to carry you now, ” he told her, “so we can move even faster. I’m not asking you, I’m telling you. Any response from you is unnecessary and unwelcome.

If you have to criticize, do it with deep understanding and love.

Sometimes it is good to throw some of your problems into the future and the good news is that there is a good possibility that you may never meet them again!

No life is well-rounded without the subtle inspiration of beauty.

Besides the drugs and counterculture, I started talking about myself, which is the first thing you do when you are a writer.

Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come.

In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.

Look around you: there is not a doctor who desires the health of his friends, not a soldier who desires peace for his country.

The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing.

I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.