Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.

Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.

Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.

The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

If you must doubt something, doubt your limits.

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

Language is the key to the heart of people.

Allow me to remove my headphones to listen to your bullshit.

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.

There’s no copy-and- paste system in foreign aid.

The Jews who already have been ousted were put out because they were morally and politically unfit to safeguard German interests.

There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years.

The whole thing is you don't want to be pigeon-holed as 'Oh, he's a guy in a wheel chair. He's very fragile. You better watch out.

I'm tired of words and I'm too hoarse to shout.

Do not doubt the holy love of Jesus to your soul when he is laying a heavy hand upon you.