All things from the north are devilish.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY!True anyhow no matter how manyLiars use those words.

How you react to a situation says more about you than you know.

The problem is not a lack of churches, but a lack of true ministers, and believers that really are followers of Christ.

That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too.

I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.

The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.

When we arrive at eternity's shore Where death is just a memory and tears are no more We'll enter in as the wedding bells ring Your bride will come together and we'll sing, 'You're beautiful'

When I am writing my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.

What goes by the name of love is banishment, with now and then a postcard from the homeland, such is my considered opinion, this evening.

When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.