But we can’t control the environment; all we can control is the way we react to it.

Don't ever underestimate the importance of treating others with respect and kindness.

Failure in and of itself is not a bad thing. But failing to learn from it is inexcusable.

The journey is where we find perspective.

How we treat people is always our choice, and if we choose not to be respectful, it can come back to bite us.

Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.

It's the wrong way. She's farther away from the door now. It occurs to me that some people only have book smarts.

Love is the only effective counter to death.

Anyone, any type of story, it doesn't have to be a crime victim, you don't have to let yourself be food for the media.

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

In order to be not bound by the tether of time, we must have a relationship with the timeless.

Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.

I'd rather die than be with anyone but you.

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.