No person, relationship, or religion should complete you. They can enhance whatever is already there, but completion of the self comes from within, not from anything beyond that.

Every great novel begins with a single word. One word, followed by another and another and another. Sentences forming paths to that dream.

Insanity runs in my family, but somehow we've always managed to track it down and catch it again.

For me, writing is just as much a choice as breathing. I can quit anytime I want, but not starting again would prove fatal.

One can never rack up his goals mere through hard-work, there is a thing in this world which is known as self-confidence.

and today, your bonesgathered your skinand said'Come on, let's do it again

Indeed, it has affirmed my belief that our purpose as spiritual beings is to follow our bliss, seek our passions, and live our lives as inspirations to each other.

Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.

Some, merely to contradict what I had said, did not scruple to cast doubt upon things they had seen with their own eyes again and again.

Look...it's empty...as empty as a politician's promise!

The nature of the love between a parent and child really is literally stronger than death. As long as either person in that relationship is alive, that relationship is still alive.

My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty.

War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.