The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.

Courage is nothing more than taking one step more than you think you can.

Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.

Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.

I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.

Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.

If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses.

You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.

The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book

This is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and hope the creature lives.

One can never have enough socks.

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

Self-judgment clouds our mind with inescapable indictments.

Wisdom cannot be compared with a gold.

I may be a famous writer but when white people clinch to their wallet and stare at me with scorn I need to ask my skin why.

Take comfort in the knowledge that you are different, even from the different ones.

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

It seems that in the world of politics, lying is not such a big deal.

My dad and my mom had to sacrifice so much, and had to teach us and show us the way of going about things, how to be humble, all those things. They helped us stay on track for what we wanted to do.

Nothing is far from God.