Small things may be important to us; to be a sometime anything is sometimes something.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

There is room in history for all of us.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

The house is eerily quiet. All this time I thought silence would be a welcome reprieve, but it's less comforting than I imagined. The house feels so much bigger and colder than it ever has.

I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.

The kind of products you envision as an entrepreneur is a function of your life experience.

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on.

It's rare in an administration for a secretary of state and a secretary of defense to get along really well.

I like to give stuff away for free and play shows for cheap and not rely on music as a job.

Never underestimate the power of the mind, the importance of love and faith, and never stop dreaming.

Peace is built on the foundation of justice.

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants