It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.

Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it's best to be suspicious of it. It's probably not worth much.

I didn’t care…about heroes who could read minds or walk through walls or do magic. The heroes I liked had courage and knew more real stuff than those who opposed them.

A rocket won't fly unless somebody lights the fuse!

I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother.

There are two things every woman really wants: one, she wants to know that a man really loves her, and two, that he isn't going to stop.

A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.

A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite work that way.

I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God's greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?

Always I try to write about people. People are interested in other people always.

We live in the land of opportunities. People come from all over the world to hustle and work their way up to places that they could only imagine or dream of.

I thought there would be time, but we always think stuff like that, don't we? We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

A fancy comes to me--that desire can never attain its object--it need never attain it.

Nothing compares to being truly, exuberantly wanted by your children.

Music can lead people to greater health and happiness.

When we face our fears, we can find our freedom.

True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

I believe myself to be an artist. That was my calling, to do my work, and what's most important to me is to do the best work I possibly can. And that is what means the most, that is what will endure.

Don’t yell at me when I just survived a near-death experience. (Abbie)