The majority don't like me before the curtain goes up, and I always have to win them.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Smiles are the language of love.

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

No one but a fool is always right.

As long as he is around, I don't fit into your life." - Nathan

A man's immortality can be found in his children.

Every adult grew from a kid who beat the odds. But at different times, in different places, the odds have been appallingly steep.

Faith means I chose not to know, which is different than ignorance which refuses to know.

I wake up laughing every day. I get a kick out of life.

The will of God is found in the Word of God. The more a person grows, the more he begins to think instinctively and habitually from a divine perspective.

I must reclaim my good life and I must return to my good works.

An odd outlook on life is the beginning of good comedic writing.

The greatest use of your words is prayer. Talk to God about EVERYTHING, all the time. Maintain a running conversation.

And the name of the one shall be Fearfulness. And the name of the other shall be Arrogance... Well, clearly you are not Fearfulness, so I suppose you must be Arrogance.' This was not very polite.