I learned early to keep death in my line of sight, keep it under surveillance, keep it on cleared ground and away from any brush where it might coil unnoticed.

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

He remounted. “I will ride with you.” With some effort, he gentled his voice. “If that would be agreeable to you.” “How kind of you. Thank you.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions

You know, catching the knuckleball, it's like trying to catch a fly with a chopstick.

It wasn’t going to be hard…it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn’t scare me as much as it used to.

Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.

Anyone who comes into your life, under any circumstances, has something to teach you.

If the gospel has never broken you, you have never really heard it.

A plan is made for a few moves only, not for the whole game.

Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.