'You ain't got any tobacco,' he said scornfully to Bunyip Bluegum. 'I can see that at a glance. You're one of the non smoking sort, all fur and feathers.'

A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.

The best love affairs are those we never had.

Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.

Somehow the idea of Montgomery as a fairy doesn't have the same effect on me as it appears to have on you.-Raphael

Life is only this place this time and these people right here and now.

With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.

It doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world.

If we're going to be authentic in our leadership, we will have to be willing to serve, and we have to be willing to suffer.

Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous!

I've been an entrepreneur all my life, and my recent focus is on finding entrepreneurial solutions to address global challenges in healthcare and education.

There's a voice when I write. I speak everything aloud. My family is so accustomed to me talking to myself that often times they don't answer me when I am trying to speak to one of them.

Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It's one-way love.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water - they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.