What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

The kitchen is a sacred space.

Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!

But, you never know when The Libertines is going to come along.

I am not an Earth artist, I'm totally involved in the sky.

When you take a picture of someone, never show it to them right away. If they don't like it, they may erase it.

I've had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don't understand women

There's a lesson in everything. Looking for the lesson is grounding.

Dogs want only love but cats demand worship.

Just opening quietly for moments everyday can create a path by which life can reach us, the way rain carves a little stream in the earth by which the smallest flowers are watered.

Reality is always extraordinary.