What we all tend to complain about most in other people are those things we don't like about ourselves.

People can't fly because they don't believe they can. If nobody ever showed people they could swim, everybody'd drown if they were dropped into the water.

There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.

Not many people are interested in what somebody else is thinking, or what they have to say. The best you can hope for is they'll listen to you just so you'll have to listen to them.

What is love? As far as I can tell, it is passion, admiration and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you don't have to die to go to heaven.

Things come apart much easier than they go together.

Sometimes looking so hard can make one blind.

Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air.

It is commonplace, and true, to point out that animals are happier than people because they live entirely in the present.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

We'll never honor Christ if we forget how to honor each other.

I’m a morning person and a night person. So I have to be a nap person, or else I’m a tired person.

I think it would be a disaster if Donald Trump is elected. It will also be a disaster if Hillary Clinton is elected.

Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.

Most writers, in my opinion, are dysfunctional derelicts.

It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed.

I think my heart is in a very good place. And I think this is why I'm achieving what I've been asking to do in the universe for so long.

What you BECOME on earth matters far more than what you DO. You're taking your character to heaven, not your career.