only when we have a respect for time will we have learned something of the art of living.

Coincidence is a messenger sent by truth.

Memories are links in a golden chain that bind us until we meet again.

Stay with the question. The more it troubles you, the more it has to teach you.

Yes, it does make the load rather heavy if you carry tools for every eventuality.

My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to get myself a job where I could travel. I did it for two years and had great fun.

It's really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving in those details, by, believe it or not, by the plumbing.

It was time to move on, to dance with life again.

a question has the most power before we rush to answer it, when it is still making us think, still testing us.

I often think it would be really interesting to take all of those who would wage war to the battlefield cemeteries, and say, explain yourself to the dead. Explain yourself to the dead!

One always has riches when one has a book to read.

If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.

Every beautiful thing that life has to offer, demands the habit of relentlessness.

Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them.

To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.

When the government pays, health care's lack of affordability becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In health care, as in other things, government is the high-cost producer.

I chop 'em into salad and my name ain't Caesar.

I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

Star quality: I don't know what it is, but I've got it.

Children ... smile as many as 400 times per day.

My heart seem[s] colder than March but on the flipside of things, it's still warmer than June.