For every thorn is just as essential to the longevity of the plant as the blossoms.

The past is as easy to travel into as turning the pages of a book...

Keeping secrets from your father will only lead to trouble.

Buried treasure isn't worth much.

Freedom is a gift that can never adequately be repaid.

When the will is strong enough, it is astounding what one's mind can do.

Nervousness always provokes mistakes, and mistakes lead to easy convictions.

Even if the world was falling apart, that was no reason to let his appearance and good habits fall apart with it.

YOU are your own guru. YOU are your own soul mate. YOU are powerful. Take the reigns and drive your carriage home to love.

There can be no success in sales without tenacity.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

If you can't send money, send tobacco.

I like doing accents. One of my friends works in hotel reservations and I'll ring her up and complain about the suite. Sometimes I get her.

Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.

Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.

Never do for someone what they can do for themselves.

Sometimes you can’t choose what you love.