They were just the ordinary sounds of of people beginning their day, silly raucous, discordant, but they were the most beautiful sounds on earth, the sounds of living people.

Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.

I truly believed that the creation of hope was the greatest of all the arts, the noblest of all the lies.

Hope is a beautiful lie and it requires talent to create it for others.

Miracles are like murders. After the first one, each becomes easier than the last for, with each success, the miracle-worker's certainty in himself becomes stronger.

Hope itself is always genuine. It's only what it's placed in that can prove to be false.

Hide from fate all you like, ” Baba Yellowlegs said as they turned away. “But it shall soon find you!

Humankind spends so much time admiring and ritualizing the inventions of humankind! And yet humankind is such a tiny part of all there is. -- Nigel S. Hey, Wonderment(Matador, 2012)

Breaking rules is indeed an important part of creativity. Innovation needs a level of guidance.

I think happy thoughts and feel happy things and I do not let myself near the swirling black edges of the hole that is my soul when I look at them.

It's hard not to respond when a master of the art of kissing is laying one on you.

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.

The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.

Arnold was a dog's dog. Whenever he shuffled along walks and through alleyways, he always gave the impression of being on to something big.

My riches are my family and my foster children. I try to store any material wealth in my hand, not my heart, so that I always feel free to give it away when the opportunity arises.