I will never be a leader of men, and neither do I want to be one, and neither do I want to be led. I thought: I want to lead only myself.

We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.

Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.

The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.

I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.

Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.

He is not bad, I don't think. Perhaps he is simply too lazy to be good.

I do not know what it was about that boy but just looking at him, even I wanted to clout him on the head. It was a head that invited violence.

Our blood is the same, we just use it differently.

Work will drive you crazy if you let it.

I sighed. ‘It doesn’t matter what we do. Money comes and goes.’ I shook my head. ‘It doesn’t matter and you know it doesn’t.

I wish we would all just fall apart so I wouldn't have to listen to the downfall happen, so slowly, so painfully.

START: Serve, Thank, Ask, Receive, Trust

The easiest way to make life beautiful is to always believe that it is beautiful.

He's (God's) always preparing you for that glorious life, even in your tough times.

Besides, I'm looking for a man who doesn't have quite the mileage and the wear and tear on him as you do!

The greatest threat to our Constitution is our own ignorance of it.

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.

I may have exaggerated a bit when I said that 80 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs. What I meant to say was 75 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs

Companies that succeed are driven by internal ambition. Stock price doesn’t drive them. Ambition and values drive them.