It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart.

A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something that you won't understand until 10 years later.

Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.

Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?

How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?

Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint.

We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.

...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings

Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work.

Somehow you drift along on the river, and one dayyou wake up and you’re someplace you don’t want tobe, with someone you realize you don’t know.

...companionship refused is worse than loneliness.

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

Anybody can cut prices but it takes brains to produce a better article.

All blame is a poor stance, if you perchance upon it.

Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.

Purity doesn't happen by accident; it requires obedience to God.

I love to work. I have a passion for what I do.

Anyone who doesn't learn from Ian Rush needs shooting.