Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

Where words fail, music speaks.

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity,

A queen could leave her t

To make pleasure pleasant shorten.

Liz Benedict, a teacher of mine at Iowa, is the person who introduced me to James Salter's work.

One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining themselves special instruments of the Divine Will.

I would like to be a positive force for young girls.

Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he'll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living.

I wasn't aware that the world thought I was so weird and bizarre. But when you grow up, like I did, in front of 100 million people since the age of 5, you're automatically different.

I am trying to keep growing and improving as a writer.

In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality.