I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.

It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.

You’ll find your one-in-a-million. But you’re sharp enough to know there’s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him.

I am a great believer in variations on the routine.

Have you ever felt like you could cry because you know you just heard the most important thing anybody in the world could have spoke at that second?

Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes.

When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy.

But they get some comfort out of the made up stories. And if that helps them get along maybe I should not poke fun.

Folks do not want to see a body disappear before their very eyes. Not me at least.

Oh, it's no crime to want and need somebody to love and to be loved by and to go and do what you need to do to have that, but its certainly a pity when you want it so badly you'll let it be anybody.

Goodness follows goodness, all in God’s time.

Life is too precious to waste any of it regretting the past.

I believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the will of the former.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. Don't go through life, grow through life.

Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.

If you learn indoor techniques, you will think narrowly and forget the true Way. Thus you will have difficulty in actual encounters.

Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.

It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories.

The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.