"There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience."

"There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live."

"We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together."

"We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed."

"I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series."

"Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person you meet by chance at the library or the pool may turn out to be the best friend of your down-the-street neighbor. Maybe that's why people are so friendly here, so willing to be unhurried."

"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."

"There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere."