I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Beauty without expression tires.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Thane had never been one of the idealists

[Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite.

We’re making strange fictions of strange things inside ourselves.

You can't write a sory until you've felt. Breathe it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them. That's why you come here. To live your story.

You can't really control how people hear stuff. It's hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.

I wanna be the villain. Villains have fun.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

I may be middle class, but I'm hard. 'Al dente', you could say.

The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.

No one should teach who is not in love with teaching.