A ton of regret never makes an ounce of difference.

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring to you increased happiness.

The good thoughts you send out to others will return to you multiplied.

Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.

Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve

Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.

There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present.

Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.

The mechanics of Nature ensures that the shadow of yesterday doesn't eclipse the dawn of tomorrow.

It was a dark and stormy night. . .perfect for staying indoors and writing a novel!

I care little for titles assigned to men, rather I care about the spirit of men.

Women are emotional! And being an artist and a woman is probably more difficult because you have more stuff to overcome.

I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration - joy and pain - sit side by side.

Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.

There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels.

I have a very eclectic taste when it comes to music.

I have learned to enjoy the ups for what they are, because those are the moments that feel like they go by the quickest.

We need to learn to get along with each other and learn how to help one another.