You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.

Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.

The sunset you see is always better than the one you don’t. More stars are always better than less.

Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.

When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.

Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom.

In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.

No Utopia is Utopia for everyone

I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either.

I don't want all the silver and gold of the world, Dillon said. What I'm seeking is to know. I want to understand God and I want to know His wisdom.

But more importantly, know I love you more than I can say with simple words. Poets have attempted for centuries to find the perfect combination, and I don’t imagine I shall have more luck than they.

We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favour,like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.

The voice has to be very clear at all times in order to convey the emotion

A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows that underneath are the everlasting arms, will find strength and peace.

Years passed and I hadn't really done much writing. Other than the fact that I'm constantly developing new shows, writing up proposals and stuff.

Cancun is the only place I've ever visited outside America

If you're trying to get someone who's sick with a fever off of a submarine and it's cold and raining outside, the only way in and out of a submarine, generally, is through a fairly narrow hatch.

Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.

There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.