All of the authoritative books on bears seem to agree on one thing: if you're close enough to a bear to cause it to change its activity pattern, you're too close, and in possible danger.

Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.

Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.

That the arts are corrupt does not mean that Christians can abandon them. On the contrary, the corruption of the arts means that Christians dare not abandon them any longer.

It's not your job to get people to like you, it's your job to like people.

Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.

I am succeeding because people are talking about how they would do it better.

Nothing of great value in this life comes easily. The things of highest value sometimes come hard. The gold that has the greatest value lies deepest in the earth, as do the diamonds.

If you did not face problems you would just drift through life. It is through solving problems in accordance with the highest light we have that inner growth is attained.

What's interesting is to see us as we really are; only in this way we could arrive to the truly knowledge of one-self.