So here is my story, may it bringSome smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!

Peace has gone on too long. Something inside me says that trouble such as these shores have never known is headed our way.

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

Who am I when I don't know myself?

Marriage is a science which has studied no one!

I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me down. I loved to climb all the way up to the top. I must have been a koala in my past life.

I know that gaps can be closed. And they can be closed substantially, more than I think we believe.

Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.

All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.

I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

Our dreams are our own, and only we can know the effort required to keep them alive.

Let's remember that the revolution in Tahrir Square was not anti-American, it was not anti-Israeli, it was for democracy and freedom. That's a good thing.