You become a man when you give your family the best of who you are.

Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.

Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.

Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life's time to both.

Reading teaches us the nuances of humanity. To find the beauty of what is moral and ethical in your own actions and discover the strange subtlety of what it is to question why you should exist.

A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.

You know there's got to be a better way of life - somewhere, sometime, somehow - but you're not exactly sure what better is.

Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore.

Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later.

Sometimes I feel as if I'm only a doorman awaiting the arrival of her royal majesty.

I gather the last remnants of the evening’s breeze, so cool and lazy within my arms, feeling it curl up like a small and innocent kitten.

War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.

I don't think the heavy stuff is gonna come down for quite a while!” ― Bill Murray character in Cadyshack

Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn't it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today.

I don't have any delusions. I don't think I would make it through Navy SEAL training.

I am an education ambassador, mainly working with schools.

We're people of the Orient. We know everything. And what we don't know, we can sense.

Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.

He liked the way her hand felt in his, liked the simple intimacy of the gesture and the way it said - without the need for words - that they were together.

One day I'd like to go to the Moon and look at the planet Earth and say, 'Wow, there's part of my portfolio.'

We don't invent our missions, we detect them.