The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

People who keep journals have life twice

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

Every day we have a choice - either to spread love and peace or to spread hate and war! And each one of us must choose love and peace each time and every time!

Are we not clouded by our own self-interest, veiled by our misunderstandings, corrupted by the misinformation feeding the 'motherboard'….our brain?

I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone.

There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.

What you are going to be tomorrow, you are becoming today.

I get invited to a lot more glamorous parties since Ive been in Downton Abbey, which has made me much more fashion conscious.

If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.

Never underestimate the desire to bolt.

The most common trait I have found in all successful people is that they have conquered the temptation to give up.