The evening sky was awash with peach, apricot, cream: tender little ice-cream clouds in a wide orange sky.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.

All good things pass away.

One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.

If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.

You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.

There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think I’d rather not know what’s in the future. I’ll stick to the present.

When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.

That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

Hope holds you fast like an anchor so you don't give way.

And from the midst of cheerless gloomI passed to bright unclouded day.

The light of day showed you the limits of possibility. But walk through the dark, the absolute, total darkness, and the possibilities were limitless.

There is no security no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago we will do it again. Actually every time we begin we wonder how we ever did it before.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Maybe the definition of home is the place where you are never forgiven. So you may always belong there, bound by guilt. And maybe the cost of belonging is worth it.

Why are you sitting here when our democracy is under assault with the FBI acting at the behest of [Republican Congressman] Jason Chaffetz and sitting here acting like it is something legit?

I invite you to bow your head and quietly whisper the prayer that will change your eternity: Jesus I believe in you and I receive you.

All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.

invaders always destroy libraries.