Mortality is one of the greatest gifts ever bestowed. After a long and fruitful life, we are able to rest.

I can't see the future. But when I dreamed of the future, he was the one I was tied to.

Bravery is measured by how hard you try, not by whether you actually succeed.

Live a life worth living.

God doesn't like it when we ask Him for the smallest things, dare to make your dream so big that He can conveniently fit into it and make your dream come true.

Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go.You could not believe I was more than your echo.

Do I need permission to breathe, Sir?

It's hard to force creativity and humor.

God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.

I'm not too good with packing. I always have every intention of doing it the week before and then leave it until the last moment - but at least I do it myself, I don't leave it to the missus.

Joy is the life of man's life.

To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a scholar but the stamina of a horse.

I have a tendency to make my partner my everything and that is unfair and it doesn't end up working out because you can't rely on that one person to fulfill all of your needs emotionally.