If people keep stepping on you, wear a pointy hat.

We like to think we're in control but we never are.

How strange it is beholding this, and, very confident, proclaim that such magnificenceoccurred by accident.

Life did come with a manual.

Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind.

If you can't write, read.If you can't read, walk.Or walk and read, then write.

Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way.

Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it.

It's only awkward if it matters.

You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary.

It reveals how well you value someone - the way you handle their belongings.

The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.

And may God be merciful, because these twisted men will not.

I think everybody has ups and downs in their lives. We learn from the biggest disappointments, right? You learn how to be humble to yourself and to be humble to others.

The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.

I am interested in garnering the white vote, and the black vote, and the Latin vote, and the Asian vote, and the business vote, and the labor vote.

Going backwards is never an option.

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.

Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.

Baby, everything is alright, uptight, out of sight.

The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke.