"Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you."

"I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony."

"The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are."

"The earth is rocky and full of roots it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil."

"But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness."

"The beauty of the unknown is that hope is the anchor of a weary soul."

"God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another."

"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."