To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!

If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys.

Well, hope for your thrilling career - but remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay the piper in the coin of suffering. If not you - then someone else.

Steal not this book for fear of shameFor on it is the owners nameAnd when you die the Lord will sayWhere is the book you stole awayAnd when you say you do not knowThe Lord will say go down below.

Never on painter's canvas livesThe charm of his fancy's dream.

If you've brains it's better than beauty - brains last, beauty doesn't.

A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself.

My repertoire is small, but I can make a pretty tasty pasta sauce from scratch.

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.

I do like change. That's the one thing exciting about me.

The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.

They said do what you want, because if we don't like it no one will hear it.

All the Ten Commandments and prayer is an acknowledgement of the Almighty God. We will not back down from that.

The plants we've chosen will collect and cycle Earth's minerals, water, and air; shade the soil and renew it with leafy mulch; and yield fruits and greens for people and wildlife.

Enough of talking: It is time now to do.