You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.

Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.

There are all sorts of books offering advice on how to deal with life-threatening situations, but where's the advice on dealing with embarrassing ones?

When I look back on the stuff I used to wear, I wonder why somebody didn't try to stop me. Just a friendly warning, "You may regret this, " would have been fine.

Your life is a picture of the decisions and choices you have made in the past, and your future depends on the quality of the decisions you make today and tomorrow.

My hope is that tomorrow will be fine, but, if tomorrow doesn't go well, I shall still hope to be fine tomorrow!

Enjoy a return to goodness produced each day in the tranquil and beneficent breath of the morning.

Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.

Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.

Above all nations is humanity.

The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power.

Within that frame he went a long way and burned a deep scar.

Losers are those who are afraid of losing

I've always been a rule-follower. Even when I was a kid, I tried to do everything by the book.