No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy.

It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

This is the end of the day, but soon there will be a new day.

If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.

Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.

Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.

The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink.

Three ThingsThree things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity.(Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet),

Change is the rule. Permanence is an illusion.

Maybe the best thing we can do for our spouses is give them permission to forgive themselves.

There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

You have to [go outside your comfort zone]. Andy Warhol said 'say yes to everything'.

In order to save the planet it would be necessary to kill 350,000 people per day.

To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.

I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.

I'm a loner clear down deep to my guts.