...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.

I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.

If you were given the chance to be reborn after your death, buy you could only come back as a squirrel, would you complain?

In a human development sense, our understanding of leadership has essentially “grown up” and moved past personal ego and a self-centered view of things.

A different direction defines what to me is real and to you is hooey.

Have you noticed that if you leave the laundry in the hamper long enough, it's ready to wear again?

a certain red cardinal sounded like a little bottle being filled up, up, up with some clear liquid.

I love when people wear flowers in their own way, like when I see someone wearing a floral dress with brogues and a jacket. It's incongruous.

I'm perfectly capable of being stupid on my own.

Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability to organize their creative work

Is there a tumor in your humor?

In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.