Love, like truth, is the unassailable defense.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it's not. It's all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate.

Thank God for His great love.

Just because a person successfully steers a voyage through hell doesn't mean he ever wants to sail that route again.

We should shun ingratitude, and live daily in the heavenly atmosphere of thankful love.

Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader.

The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.

The thing that is my main focus is my family. More than anything, I want to be a good husband to my wife and a good father to my kids.

Memories are like holograms: you recreate in your head the whole image of something which isn't there.

I'm a Star Wars fan from way back, and I love where the stories are going now.