A birthday wish granted 23 years late is still a birthday wish granted.

I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Not to know what things in life require remedying is a crime... It leaves you at the mercy of events - it lets life manipulate you - instead of training you to manipulate life.

Success only hurts the first time.

Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.

Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren’t distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses.

Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful.

Sometimes people do things that hurt and it's not because they mean to. They just do. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with you, but you end up hurt because of it.

A few steps into the trees, you glance back to see the snow has already covered your prints.

This book is written with an open mind and it should be read with the same

Saying that someone is full of themselves is silly. Who else can one be full of … except self?

In the service of the Lord it is not where but how you serve.

But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?

Isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?

It was really dreadful to be so different from other people…and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.

There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into the fold.

But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident.

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.