I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I’m half ground, that I don’t want to be a sausage after all.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

People who keep journals have life twice

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

Believing is a disposition. We could tire ourselves out thinking, if we put our minds to it, but believing takes no toll.

Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all

No road is long enough as long as you "keep on going

There is no higher value in our society than integrity.

The paths that we choose don't always take us where we want to go. Sometimes they take us where we need to go.

I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.

This European and really pro-Russian nationalism is seeping into America. It's very disturbing.

To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace.

That which is hard to do is best done bitterly.

Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.