There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons.

Constructiveness is the human way.

Failure is the most important part of an artist's training, and one you cannot afford to do without.

What you're normally doing as a writer is trying to find the narrative.

The first thing I would do when I saw Bobby coming down at me was to say a little prayer if I had time. I'm sure I wasn't the only goalie who did that.

One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self.

Dizzy, Duke and Charlie Parker were the greatest jazz legends of all time.

All the trials and tribulations have paid off. In life, you have setbacks...When you're in your valley, that's when you're tested the most -not when you're at your peak.

I saw something nasty in the woodshed.

It is where we embrace our questions. . . . Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer our attention rather than our opinions?