I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how much in common that they have

What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.

From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living.

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

For me, it's always easy to choose between the Ultimate, the Infinite, and the Chocolate.

Let's stick together." "Well, you're going to have to wait here for me there: I'm going to the bathroom." "But how long are you going to be?" "Oh, three hours?" "Rocky . . .

Every cause produces more than one effect.

So much worse are the consequences of anger than its causes.

God doesn't desire our worship because He is egocentric. He desires it because we are.

My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him.

Heliotrope. To be sowed in the spring. A delicious flower, but I suspect it must be planted in boxes and kept in the house in the winter. The smell rewards the care.