Show me a hero and I'll show you a bum.

My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might have gone to college.

Nature is a divine art.

Emotion lay at the very heart of the process of perception, intertwined with intellectual functions, yet adding to perception a quality that reason lacked.

A hero lives forever for the ones who carry on.

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

Running long offers a dress rehearsal. Running long teaches the stress of lifting feet 5,000 times per hour. Running long builds confidence.

We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.

I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you get to working in the fields. I guess I was a big boy for my age.

I shall laugh my bitter laugh.

There are little gems all around us that can hold glimmers of inspiration.