How beautiful a day can be, when kindness touches it!

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

The voice of the heart is much stronger than all the other sounds and words spoken without feelings

All I know is that the first step is to create a vision, because when you see the vision – the beautiful vision – that creates the want power.

It's just strange to think about...whether I'll be an artist or what I'll be doing.

There was an electric anger in his gaze, and a sort of challenge that made Simon long to hit him with something heavy. Like a pickup truck.

Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Now Ben Folds is my photography older brother. He was kind enough to give me a photo of his for my 40th birthday.

The race film had confirmed a dead heat. That was great. But even better, most of the New York press finally learned to spell my name correctly.

Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pass a waking hour without a book before me.