This culture of distraction was nothing new. Christianity was born into one.

By our day, self-restraint was considered madness.

Jesus takes the chaos of the world upon Himself.

The person you grow to become in pursuit of a goal makes the journey a memorable experience.

My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property.

Failures, repeated failures, are sign-posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something (and it works).

There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.

The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation.

At the end of our life, we ought to be able to look back over it from our deathbed and know somehow the world is a better place because we lived, we loved, we were other-centered, other-focused.

We lavender folk spray up, spontaneously flowering in the color we had learned as an identifying mark of our culture when it was subterranean and secret.

Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

All comics want to be musicians. There's a part of me that wants to be a serious musician. I love songs about heartache and heartbreak.