You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.

When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by.

Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes.

It was a dark and stormy night.

Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart...

Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel that, in stories, words could command things to be.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

You can always tell a novice rider; they aren't comfortable in the saddle and have to hang on.

Happiness is the most important thing in the world, without it, you live a life of depression.

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

I think no matter what you do you can't please everybody. You have to ask yourself, "Did I do what I set out to do?"

Of all the forms of water the tiny six-pointed crystals of ice called snow are incomparably the most beautiful and varied.

The sky is the sky wherever you go.

Prohibition didn't work, so why should emancipation work? I think we should just stick with a system that has proven to be effective.