Even if the world was falling apart, that was no reason to let his appearance and good habits fall apart with it.

The past is as easy to travel into as turning the pages of a book...

For every thorn is just as essential to the longevity of the plant as the blossoms.

Keeping secrets from your father will only lead to trouble.

Buried treasure isn't worth much.

Freedom is a gift that can never adequately be repaid.

When the will is strong enough, it is astounding what one's mind can do.

Nervousness always provokes mistakes, and mistakes lead to easy convictions.

Fire looked into his quiet eyes, touched his dear familiar face and considered the question.

Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.

Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.

You want to finish something when it's good. You don't want to be the last one at the party!

I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.

An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.

One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things.

The taste forever refines in the study of women.

Self-interest leads to honing your skills, the better to trade with.

So that's the challenge for me and that has always been the challenge - finding that melody, that riff, that thing that just lights me up and makes me feel like it's Christmas.