When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.

Ham with mustard is a meal of glory

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.

We live in an old chaos of the sun.

Most stories are not about peoplebut about life, an addiction like the rest of themthat destroys you even as you love it, but you love it anyway and can never get enough.

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.

I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.

As your understanding of life continues to grow, you can walk upon this planet safe and secure, always moving forward toward your greater good.

Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is.

Eyes that displace the neighbor diamond, and outface that sunshine by their own sweet grace.

When I was in high school I was a super serious athlete. I wasn't fun at all.