Your heart is the correspondent of your soul. It knows the grooves of joy.

Jefferson determined the lodestar that lay hidden in the motivations of others

February is the cruelest month in western Oregon.

Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others.

The size of your paycheck shouldn’t determine your child’s future.

Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that the engines are about to fail.

Do not be deceived by the outward appearance of age or youth - a new pitcher may be full of good, old wine, while an old one may be totally empty.

I know, we can barely fit them in. That is a big challenge. Treating four lead characters equally, within a 30-minute format, is definitely challenging.

And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single thread making my life into a coherency.

Until you find something worth dying for, you're not really living.

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to seek death on battlefields.