"Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is."

“I'm not even really a joke-teller. I can do ad-lib and banter, but I don't do jokes.”

“The more clean you are in awakening to your own being, the more you'll be able to move your own being toward others.  Your evolution as awareness is in the purity of thatit's in the cleanness.”

“What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.”

“Because other people are fools, must you be so too?”

“The good life (for your kids) is where you make the ordinary extraordinary, where you make the natural miraculous. It's where you make the everyday unique.”

“I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do.”

“When the friends we love the best Lie in their churchyard bed, We must not cry too bitterly Over the happy dead.”

Source : Cecil Frances Alexander (1871). “Hymns for Little Children”, p.43

“What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to ring true. True to what? True to life as the reader knows life to be or, it may be, feels life to be. And I mean the adult, the grown-up reader. Such a reader has outgrown fairy tales, and we do not want the fantastic and the impossible. So I say to you that a novel must stand up to the adult tests of reality.”