Maybe I did mean to kill myself. I didn't think it outright but...maybe the truth is, I didn't--I don't--much care one way or th'other.

Fer in our dreams we find ourselves. Who we were. Who we are. Who we can become. Sleep. Dream.

There are some people, she says, not many, who have within them the power to change things. The courage to act in the service of somethin greater than themselves.

I weep fer the livin. I weep fer the dead. I weep fer the yet to be born.

There's some wounds that run too deep to be seen. They're the most dangerous.

The mask's back in place. The heard-it-all smile. The seen-it-all eyes.

But tears don't bring back the dead. I learned that.

We like to think we’re in charge of our own lives, but we ain’t.

He said if you do what you have to do today, all the tomorrows have a way of working things out by themselves.

No one is satisfied with his fortune or dissatisfied with his intellect.

My two boys were the same ages as the kids in the show. In real life or in between the breaks I was raising two kids off camera who were not unlike the two kids who were being paid to be my kids.

Frederick Buechner is one of my favorite writers. The Eyes of the Heart is beautiful and wise, full of insight, charm, and tenderness.

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

I'm lucky if I write a letter.

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good. I am a God and cannot find it there, Nor would I seek it; for, though dread revenge, This is defeat, fierce king, not victory.

Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive

Mirror, mirror, here I stand. Who is the fairest in the land?