I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

All I think of ever is that I love you.

Because if its just you alone, you're not much of a threat.

I just don't want to forget this first day of the rest of my life!

God didn’t just give a little for us; He gave His best. He gave Himself.

Yeah you can have a word," said Harry savagely. "Good-bye.

I love writing from enclosed spaces: you really learn about your characters when they have tight walls to push against.

Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description.

Open your eyes! The world is still intact; it is as pristine as it was on the first day, as fresh as milk!

Ill-luck is, in nine cases out of ten, the result of taking pleasure first and duty second, instead of duty first and pleasure second.

I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.