When writing a novel, I'm not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don't know what it is.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

I’m a lot like you, and you’re a lot like me.It’s sad to say, and it’s sad to see.

Every new breath and day is on opportunity to do something, a gift of life to make a difference in the world.

When your dreams tire they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.

Only when the flower vase will be itself in bloom, only then we got the real wonder of poetry

The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.

After forty years of marriage we still stood with broken swords in our hands.

It is absolutely without contradiction that when women are encouraged to participate in the formal economies of their societies, the economy grows.

My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.

Silence is the neutral Center in which movements take a breath of repose.