It was funny how all the useless knowledge you accumulated when you're in love with someone could sit for years gathering dust in the back of your mind, only to spill out at the slightest reminder.

The webs spun by our existence had gracefully overlapped and knotted until you could not have one without the other. We were infinitely intertwined.

I was seventeen all over again, falling into intrigue with the boy who was an exquisite contradiction.

Dare to seek knowledge

With two teenagers in the house, we sometimes experience a degree of domestic turbulence that sounds, to my ear, like a boiling teakettle filled with hormones shrieking on a stove.

The daggers of silence last longer than anything ever spoken.

The one thing most important to anything else is to be happy.

Genuine, authentic relating enlivens the spirit.

All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.

To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the greatest lessons.

There is no 'perfect' in music. If I ever came off the stage and felt it could not be better, it would then be time to quit.

When Reagan was outspoken about his faith it was usually for a purpose, but never for getting votes.

Like a lady who has lost weight and she's just getting to that point where she can fit into that favourite dress, you get the film down to just about the right cut. You can feel it when it happens.