Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

People who keep journals have life twice

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

Good luck has its storms.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.

May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of martyrdom.

Blessed are the peacemakers, For they have freed themselves from sinful wrath.

At the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.

You've got to win in your mind before you win in your life.

The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner.