History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

Knowledge is light.

Persecution is an enemy the Church has met and mastered many times. Indifference could prove to be a far more dangerous foe.

I think when one has talent one finally breaks through; so don't pass up any opportunity to do some work.

Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.

I'm perfectly proud of the work I did, looking back at it. I know I've had a bit of a revision since my 'Big Finish' stories came out.

We'll fight 'em until hell freezes over, then we'll fight 'em on the ice.

But with period clothes, people know less so they accept the pretty drawing that I give them.

I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.