Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

I never lose. Either I win or learn.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

With all due respect to the nation's fish and game departments, more deer die because people hunt them than because people feed them.

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

I have created the Raven in my own image over the years and insist that mine is the version of this personality that is correct - well, at least it is correct as far as I am concerned.

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody was already grown and had left home already.

A good novel cannot be too long or a bad novel too short.

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.

Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.

There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at your feet like a shadow, you suddenly and strangely feel perfectly okay.

In a time of polarized politics there's one thing that more than ninety percent of Americans agree on, that our government is broken, and broken because of the money in politics.