Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.

Courage is nothing more than taking one step more than you think you can.

Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.

I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.

Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.

If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses.

You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.

The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.

The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book

This is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and hope the creature lives.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

No person who examines and reflects, can avoid seeing that there is but one race of people on the earth, who differ from each other only according to the soil and the climate in which they live.

God is not worn out running the galaxy. He’s not taxed at all guiding every dust particle all the time.

Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement of health care, is there anything to boast about?

One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.

You're a dancer; don't strain, don't force it. Be one with the hurdle, let it happen, relax while running fast.

If there 's a hole in a' your coats, I rede ye tent it; A chiel 's amang ye takin' notes, And, faith, he 'll prent it.

Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.

I dare say she means to keep you from his attentions. Your honour demands she be slain.

Jesus made it possible for us to have the peace that passes all understanding-the kind that carries us, stabilizes us, grounds us, and keeps us from slipping.