I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes.

What are the chances that of all 1.59629 quadrillion square feet of physical land on planet Earth, three major world religions are literally fighting over one single rock?

Knowing you were right down the hall was way too hard. I couldn’t do it, ” Evan declared, sliding under the covers next to me.

I enjoy the press. I understand their business.

I hope that somewhere in Small Town, U.S.A., a 15-year-old kid looks to me as a role model the way I looked at the Indigo Girls and Elton John as role models.

Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.

Of all hateful occupations, housekeeping is to my mind the most hateful.

The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.

Feel good about being someone who loves selflessly. I think someday you’ll find someone who loves you the exact same way.

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.