Your siblings are the only people in the world who know what it's like to have been brought up the way you were.

One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself.

The success of a businessperson can be measured by the problems she has successfully solved.

At this rate, we'll never get to the future.

There are many sources of happiness. Doing goodness is one of them and one of the best!

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]

detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it.

Look to love and you may dream, and if it should leave then give it wings. But if a love is meant to be, hope is home and the heart is free.

I think art can reflect tragedy.

The image I had was very clear, and so in that way The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began like other books.

On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates

I don't know what to do. I only know that it's taken me years to understand that life was pushing me in a direction I didn't want to go in.