Often ill comes from the good, as good from ill.

...flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.

Every experience however bitter has its lesson and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.

The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.

I've never formally trained for pain management, but I have a good understanding of how to conquer it. I just analyze the pain, feel it in the moment, and then mentally become numb to it.

What sustains me is to be with my family and to write.

The Real [is] the sole foundation of the Ideal.

Fairness is giving all people the treatment they earn and deserve. It doesn't mean treating everyone alike.

Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.

You know what I miss? More than anything? Coffee. -- Plutarch Heavensbee

They can ta'k our lives but they can never ta'k our freedom!' Now there's a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.