Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.
I want to put a ding in the universe.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.
One of these days, will become a this day. And that day, will be the preeminent of days to come.
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
He shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the...
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father l...