In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

Travelers are fantasists, conjurers, seers - and what they finally discover is that every round object everywhere is a crystal ball: stone, teapot, the marvelous globe of the human eye.

LILY FELL OUT OF THE SKY.

We learn so many things from golf: how to suffer, for instance.

I think the one thing for me that's been working is just authenticity.

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.

If we don't discipline ourselves, God will make certain we are disciplined by others.

He’s not your typical prince, more like a square peg in a round hole, kind of like me. He’s the sort of guy who wouldn’t mind reading side by side on a date.

I don't really dance for pleasure much." "Uh--so you, uh, usually dance professionally, or what?" Seb asked. "Yeah," said Nick. "The ballet is my passion.

I'm very lucky with my metabolism.

I think there's too much of the wrong type of influences that stem from hip-hop.

Remember that your natural state is joy.