The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight though his eyes opened on the carnage of a battlefield.

The strictly logical mind is usually if not always at fault in its valuations of that defiantly illogical thing known as human nature.

If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience, it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

Humour is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought - rather it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy.

If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.

Prayers can be whatever you wish them to be. They can be short or long requests, expressions of gratitude and affirmations that your requests are being honored.

A pair of skinny jeans and a tattoo does not make you a leader.

Simplicity has power. Founding our life on constructive, positive behavior is the simplest, most direct, and powerful approach I've ever found-simple, but not easy.

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said: 'That's the end of that.

I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.

I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.

The risk of sudden death is miniscule, overstating this risk is not going to stop them from taking the drug.

Animation taught me to draw quickly and clearly and to communicate a character's feelings through his or her body language and facial expressions.

I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there.