One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.

We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

The examined life is no picnic.

The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess.

Why is love easy? I don’t know. And the raccoons don’t say.

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

I love to strengthen myself with a healthy diet, plenty of exercise and maintaining a strong connection to myself.

When your pipeline is full – with business coming out of your ears – the notion of people asking for a discount will sound hilarious, because you’ll already be at capacity

Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.

I still define myself by the places that I've been.

Accept the difficulty of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever changing it.

It is not the business of religion in these days to isolate herself from the world like John the Baptist. She must go down into the world like Jesus Christ.

Destitute of the fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing fire, nothing else matters.

Human eyes are the sign language of the brain. If you watch them carefully, you can see the truth played out, raw and unguarded.

To larger sight, the rim of shadow is the line of light.

When you side with a man, you stay with him. And if you can't do that, you're like some animal. You're finished. We're finished. All of us.