...our family is white as far back on the family tree as I've ever looked, and I guess I picture people white white white unless someone tells me otherwise

My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.

I did Lassie for six years and I never had anybody come up to me and say, 'It made me want to be a farmer.

Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.

Silence is a protective coating over pain.

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity.

Always do what you're afraid to do. ... I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.

Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.

It is the story that matters, not just the ending.

The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights some are born to juggle golden balls.

There are times when a sports figure doesn't deserve sympathy.

I have several Scottish Terriers. I find them to be the most wonderful dogs.

Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.

The annoying thing about being modest is that you can't brag about it.

There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.

Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one eye so as not to damage the entirety of my brain.

A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.

Think for yourself. Know what you're doing. Question authority.