Next to music beer was best.

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.

The tree of life is hope.

Whatever you do, let it be lovely.

Forgiveness leads to healing of wounds and restoration health.

The storm before the calm.

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?

With nonfiction, I go in trying to be really honest about what my preconceptions are.

Words are the wings of actions.

I'm proud of my medals. I always was proud of them.