Danger and delight grow on one stalk .

What can't be cured must be endured.

There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.

A fence should be horse high hog tight and bull strong.

Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent.

If you fail to plan you plan to fail.

Today's sales should be better than yesterday's - and worse than tomorrow's.

There is no crisis to which academics will not respond with a seminar.

He who drinks a little too much drinks much too much.

They talk of my drinking but never my thirst.

He who has daughters is always a shepherd.

Writing as a creative art flourishes only when there are no rules. Rules stifle you from entering the silent and forbidden spaces where the core of the story is waiting to be revealed.

I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.

The truth is that you can spend your life any way you want, but you can spend it only once.

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.

I go to church every Sunday. I've always been a believer. I love singing. I don't have the best voice - I just love getting my emotions out.

There's an independence to surfing, it's just you and the ocean. There aren't a bunch of rules.

Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes.

To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.

One time, my mother told me that I always eat like I'll never see food again. And I said, "I won't unless I bring it home." That shut her up.

The Ukrainian opposition should adopt democratic unity as its main principle, and it also must have one leader.