“It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.”

Organization is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it’s not all mixed up.

Brains first and then Hard Work.

Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.

A pipe in the mouth makes it clear that there has been no mistake-you are undoubtedly a man.

A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.

What ever fortune brings, don’t be afraid of doing things.

Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.

Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.

The hardest part is what to leave behind, It’s time to let go!

When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.

Think it over, think it under.

The truth is that Fate does not go out of its way to be dramatic.

Friendship is a very comforting thing to have.

You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually.

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is really the most extraordinary thing I have taken on.

So I be written in the Book of Love. I do not care about that Book Above. Erase my name, or write it as you will. So I be written in the Book of Love.

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.

A classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again.

I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don’t discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that’s very telling.

The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.

The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to the great social ills of the day, is failing to preach the gospel.