Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.

Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.

The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.

Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.

People change and forget to tell each other.

Humility is pride in God.

The only place where we're going to be completely relieved of pain is in Heaven.

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate.

I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?

God's purpose in increasing our trials is to sensitize us to people we never would have been able to relate to otherwise.

We must accustom ourselves to the follies of others and not be astonished at the foolishness that takes place in our presence.

I think, in the long term it's in the goal of everyone to see a unified Korea that actually provides for the people of North Korea the kind of life that they need.

Behind a rack of framed photos of Snow, we encounter a wounded Peacekeeper propped up against a strip of brick wall. He asks us for help. Gale knees him in the side of the head and takes his gun.