Not all writers are silently suffering inside. But it certainly helps.

We like to think we're in control but we never are.

How strange it is beholding this, and, very confident, proclaim that such magnificenceoccurred by accident.

Life did come with a manual.

Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind.

If you can't write, read.If you can't read, walk.Or walk and read, then write.

Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way.

Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it.

It's only awkward if it matters.

You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary.

It reveals how well you value someone - the way you handle their belongings.

No matter how beautiful a rose is it must still grow in dirt.

The people of the world have a fixed destiny. But the spiritually developed receive what is “not” in their destiny.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is that they just remind you that you're the person who takes them to go poop. That's who you are!

My deep sense of alarm has to do with Donald Trump's seeming lack of fealty to constitutionalism.

From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear.

I am a song bird, I am a meek song bird, I offer my prayer to the Lord.

my mind is a world in itself, which I have peopled with my own creatures.

Those who stay where they are will endure.