A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.

There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she.

As important as increase is, it is not an end in itself

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.

Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness.

Under Donald Trump, you know, we've seen the foundation of the Republican Party move into the Democratic Party, so Donald Trump, I think, will have a lot of trouble moving things through Congress.

If someone wants a piece of you, never let them pay. What you do not give to them time takes anyway.

Is it every man and woman's curse to want it all and only get ten percent of it? Or do we ask too much?

My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids wont grow up to be connected to him.

If you want milk, don't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in the hope that a cow will back up to you.

Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus."