What is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

The sun is still there... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you will never feel ice about your heart again.

She long ago accepted the fact that happiness is like, swallows in spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it.

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.

Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance

Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.

He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out.

Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

I'd go to the end of the world for my husband. Of course, if he'd just stop and ask directions, I wouldn't have to.

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

The best thing we can do for a young person is to expect a great deal from them.

That was a kiss for the record books.

We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.

Like the bright, cool dawn after a night of prison and of thunder, Man can taste that freedom sought so long.

That's my sweetheart in there. I'm not living her. This is my home now. Your mother is my home.

The marks won't listen if it's free.

When you nag, you become the problem, he deals with it by turning you out, but when you don't nag, he deals with the problem.

You always like to learn from people as a young actor. I think every young actor says that, but its true.