For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

By all means, learn beyond the classroom. In the end, thats all that will matter

Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time.

To me, the harmonica is like a voice.

Most - and I mean maybe 99% or more - graphic novels are simply fat comicbooks. The term is a bogus, cocked-up concept some marketing whizkid conceived to get comics on the shelves of bookstores.

Men are my life, diamonds are my career.

It could plausibly be argued that far from Christian theology having hampered the study of nature for fifteen hundred years, it was Greek corruptions of biblical Christianity which hampered it.

We are a nation that has a government-not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth.

Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.

There were times when i felt in a slump or lonely but i never thought of giving up

She obeys me, but only because she wants to. It's the only justification for obedience, Ged observed.