Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches.

Autumn in my garden is when trees give their tickertape welcome to winter.

Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them.

There are no easy words for the insights of the spirit, and approximate language used in good faith can cause approximate truths to spread like a disease.

I believe in the relatedness of all forms of life from the simplest to the most complex. We humans share the same family tree as all life on earth, back to the first stirrings in the primal ocean.

When you can overcome the fear of failure, success will not be far away.

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

I want to remember it all, the good times and the bad times, the late nights, the boozing, the dancing into dawns, and all the great and not-so-great people I met and loved in those years.

I don't like the sound of my own voice. And, for people I don't know, their impression of me is what they read on the internet, and they're so far off a lot of the time.

The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.

If you're not where you want to be, it's because you're not who you need to be right now.

I supported to reduce oil consumption in California by 50 percent, 50 percent in the next 15 years. They didn't even bother to show up.

Our greatest indulgence towards a man springs from our despair of him.

It is absurd to think that a man can believe in Christ, with his heart, and it not have a radical affect on the rest of his life.

I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career.