There was nothing you couldn't do if you wanted it bad enough, and were willing to work hard enough to get it.

Some things in life are worth waiting for.

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.

Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.

We are always better than before when those we love inflict wounds upon us.

Sing Me no songs tell me no tales cry me no tears, but remember me kindly.

I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to.

Things work out the way they're meant to

The things we don’t stress tend to turn out best. Trust and let go.

You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discovered it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky.

He made it hard for a girl to not fall head over heels.

Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.

The Victorians lost a few workers in everything they built, rather like a votive offering.

If I'm on the course and lightning starts, I get inside fast. If God wants to play through, let him.

In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.

In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't.

By following this simple path, you become extraordinary, unfathomable, a being of profound cosmic subtlety. You outlive time and space by realizing the subtle truth of the universe.

She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.