Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

He loved her.He wanted her.He needed her.And he needed her now.

(N)ot writing was hard work, almost as hard as writing.

We begin to realize that it will take something more powerful than we are to relieve our suffering. This is what we’ve been missing all along – a source of hope.

Sometimes I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear.And I, I can’t help but ask myself how much I let the fear take the wheel and steer.

All the supernatural yarns need a realist explanation and a supernatural one.

I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

I will always come with something that's aesthetically pleasing.

So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster.

Often, people who can do, don’t because they’re afraid of what people that can’t do will say about them doing.

I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.