By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

We were together. I forget the rest.

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.

When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.

Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.

Surviving is good, but overcoming is better.

Truth was she liked that he came after her. She liked the thought of being under submission to him in an intimate way. It was a welcome desire which Wharick alone sparked.

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.

We are attracted to people who have traits we want in ourselves, and usually we are unattracted to people with traits that we share.

I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles]... I'm ready.

The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.

I associate my childhood with two things, mainly: the North Devon countryside and a sense of connection to another world.

The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.

Just believe in yourself. Even if you don't, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.