At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.

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.

Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know...

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us.

I know that I cannot control anyone else's actions but my own, and how I choose to react to situations.

In the view of everyone, I am a viable candidate and I should be on the ballot.

Accepting that we have weaknesses becomes a strength.

As a parent you protect your kids as much as possible.

The "I" thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the "I" thought has to be inquired into.

That's a very nice, generic-sounding question: "When did you know you were funny?" But it pre-supposes that I think I'm really hilarious. So that's kind of a loaded question.

On rides you see things that trigger ideas. And most the time it's just not doing anything but riding ... letting it all go.