This great blue world of ours is but a house of leaves, moments before the wind.

Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold.

Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.

Have no fear, you will find your way. It's in your bones. It's in your soul.

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.

I want something else. I'm not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it's drenched in sunlight and it's weightless and I know it's not cheap. Probably not even real

Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.

Little solace comes to those who grieve when thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting and this great blue world of ours seems a house of leaves moments before the wind.

We all create stories to protect ourselves.

Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.

Who has never killed an hour?

Do the small things with a great and a clean heart, even out of your least, and you never did a small thing at all, for the heart defines it all!

Gratifying when the basics reflect a fresh light, leading to real continuing ed.

A wedge of sunlight slipped over the edge of the desk and fell noiselessly to the carpet.

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

Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.

Be faithful in little things, for in them your strength lies. To the good God nothing is little, because He is so great and we are so small.

As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness.

It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.