Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.

If you aren't willing to look foolish, you're foolish. And that's why so many people have never built an ark, killed a giant, or walked on water.

... A man's wife can hold him devilish uneasy, if she begins to scold and fret, and perplex him, at a time when he has a full load for a railroad car on his mind already.

My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.

Colm Feore. Newspaper column, Norwegian water. Column of steel, column of virtue, just for God's sake, Colm.

As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors on the earth below.

I worry about my voice 24/7 when I'm on tour. It's like a pitcher and his arm. It's constantly the thing that my whole life revolves around.

These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.

In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world. Such a belief system makes individual failure almost inconsolable.

This is suffering's lesson: pay attention. The important part might come in a form you do not recognize.

I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I might find the funny bits.