Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.

The dachshund is a perfectly engineered dog. It is precisely long enough for a single standard stroke of the back, but you aren't paying for any superfluous leg.

How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?

When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who's selling fear.

God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners.

The sparrow still falls.

If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.

No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace.

Watching him with one eye, she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.

Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.

God's got a lot of explaining to do. Of course, God never explains. When life breaks your heart, you're just supposed to pick up the pieces and start all over, I guess.

All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

Be not proud of your intelligence. Be simple, wise, and humble.

But mostly it's about pacing yourself when you do these movies.

I was even a little glad that if it wasn’t going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who really deserved her.

I just kill them because they were monsters and demons.

Very few writers thank their mothers for keen editorial insight

What was that, Kylie? Just a thank-you for saving your life.. or was it more?

It's all going to be okay.

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.