Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.

Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.

By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.

Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?

You cannot defeat darkness by running from it, nor can you conquer your inner demons by hiding them from the world. In order to defeat the darkness, you must bring it into the light.

Everyday we have a high calling that we need to fulfill and everyday we can do it whether it's just to smile at somebody we little know.

You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.

I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career

Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. This can be tricky.

I am always fascinated by India.

I don't have a lot of friends; most of the friends I have, I've had since high school.

You are made for a person and a place. Jesus is the person. Heaven is the place.

My wife had her drivers’ test the other day. She got 8 out of 10. The other 2 guys jumped clear.

Without patience, you will never conquer endurance.