Caleb and Aaron—now you are people and you have joined the fraternity and you have the right to be damned.

A man without words is a man without thought.

All great and precious things are lonely.

My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

Courage and fear were one thing too.

Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.

May you can continue unhindered, by inviting immense clarity, prosperity and purpose - into your life.

Never blame your shortcomings on your personality. You're not built that way

If you're happy inside you don't have to convince everyone else.

Don’t ever put your happiness in someone else’s hands. They’ll drop it. They’ll drop it every time.

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.

I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth.

I'm absolutely confident that the God that I worship abhors violence.

In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger.

Kenya is a mercurial character. I feel the country has a presence that can turn on its people in a very violent way.