We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.

On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.

A child who is born is something to seek out, something to search for, a star, a northern light, a column of energy in the universe. And a child who dies-that's an abomination.

With age I have voluntarily chosen certain limitations. I don't have the energy to start over again. To learn new skills or fight my own personality or figure out diesel engines.

To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.

I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages.

Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease.

Deep within every blind, absolute love grows a hatred toward the beloved, who now holds the only existing key to happiness

Every theoretical explanation is a reduction of intuition.

Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.

No matter how much struggle you face in your journey towards success, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.

My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.

Writing has enriched my life in ways I never imaged.

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.

I think that strength levels go hand in hand with building a great physique. You've got to lift heavy weight to get big - period.

Will you be my shoulder when I'm gray and older? Promise me tomorrow starts with you. Getting high, running wild among the stars above. Sometimes it's hard to believe you remember me.

Then Mission Impossible brought me to Australia and that was great because I fell in love.

I want to give my respect, glory and time to the Bible - to the word of God - just as I want to give my respect and time to my work.

Chocolate is the greatest gift to women ever created.

There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.