Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue.

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.

If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin.

The system shaves the dice on the side of those with money and power, and anyone who believes otherwise deserves anything that happens to him.

You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home.

And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.

How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?

...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.

When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well.

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.

We were made to be mirrors perfectly reflecting God's goodness, but with sin that mirror fractured and the reflection is distorted.

Life teach you everything either you want to learn it or not ....

I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation.

You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.

I don't think any woman wants to be known for being beautiful or busty. I think you want to be known for who you are.

The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant.

There is a wealth of knowledge to be understood from others' work, don't get me wrong, and when I do stumble upon others' work, it's not lost on me.

The best way to help the poor is to slash taxes and allow savings, investment, and creation of jobs to proceed unhampered.

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.

Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.