I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

He would have died soon, but more painfully. Anyway, it was Urban Bloodshed Limitation. First rule: limit bloodshed by making sure that none of your own gets spilled.

We all inherit damage from the past. We spread it like a virus and don't generally think about it.

...and what it all comes down to is that I haven't got it all figured out just yet.

We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead - like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way in the universe - far out on a distant edge, hearing little of what is transpiring.

Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

Inspiration is hogwash. My work comes directly out of my loves and hates. Muses don't whisper in my ear, and ideas don't flow over my body like a cool rain.

Smile. It is sunshine to others.

the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.

Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.