You know home isn’t really about what color your couch is or what you hang on the wall... Home is about knowing you are in the right place with the right people.

You lift your head, you’re on your way, but really just to be walking, to be out of doors. That’s it, that’s all, and you’re there. Outdoors is our element: the exact sensation of living there.

And even with the book closed, the voices do not stop--there are echoes and reverberations that seem to leap off the pages and mischievously leave the novel tingling in our ears.

Love the wife of your youth. Never abandon her.

Patience is the best medicine.

I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself.

Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.

When you have elections in which 90% or 95% or 99% of those elected come from one party, then I think there is some fraudulent act.

There's always something that happens where I go, 'Oh, that was so awkward!'

He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.

I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.