We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it.

Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.

Remove every barrier you can to fandom. A fan will be an evangelist for your work.

The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary

You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come.

To be rich, don’t try to earn money. To grow abundance, never forget to cultivate your mind.

You are the mark on my liquid heartwhere love begins with the beginning’s startYou are the desire of the ablaze fires the only truth from ten-thousand-liarsFrom the poem- A Letter to My Love

The gods cannot misunderstand, man cannot explain.

We serve the world by finding out what feeds us, and, having been fed, then share our gifts with others.

I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin.

Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

The church is so big on law but not on the love.

Forget not that the grossest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong. Remember the eternal law: you must give, if you want to get.