Life was profligate with beauty, only if you stopped to look, only if you had someone to share it with.

and the wind gathered the leaves as a mother gathers her children and blew them irrevocably, lovingly, into the haunted wildness

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.

Scouting teaches a boy to take care of himself and stand on his own two feet.

Judge Samuel Alito's accomplishments in life are the embodiment of the American dream.

Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.

Always aim at perfection for only then will you achieve excellence

One of the great consolations . . . is that because Jesus walked such a long, lonely path utterly alone, we do not have to do so.

You can't get blase about something you haven't done yet.

My kitchen is not a place to live in. I made it white so I can tell instantly if it's not clean-and I like it clean enough to be able to eat off the floors-or the tables,for that matter.

What I do in my own time, is my business.