My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

Freedom is found within, in the shape of our laughter and the way we love, in the truths that we live by and the stories we become

A boy, Ranga, is the light in his father’s eye and the love in his mother’s heart.

I live my life by the grace of God.

He that is without sin among you let him cast the first stone.

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

You are never too old or too broken. It is never too late to begin, or to start all over again.

It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

Grab it while you can — grab every scrap of happiness while you can

Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.

I know many of my female friends do not like being referred to as "ladies."