Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

The more love you put off to the world in all aspects, the more it will return to you.

When a man wantonly destroys a work of man we call him a vandal when a man destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman.

I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.

A Love like this happens but once in a lifetime

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

This principle that judges are not politicians lies at the very heart of a judicial job - of the judicial job description.

The single word that matters most I think to keep the company productive as it grows is alignment.

What do we do now, now that we are happy?

Be acted upon rather than active. In this way, God will do through you alone what all men put together could not do without Him.