If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.

Kindness eases change Love quiets fear

When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.

We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.

There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.

Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.

Each man is the architect of his own fortune.

No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.

Sometimes you wake up in the morning and wish your parents had never met.

I'm cool with whatever. I'll just keep eating my bread, sipping my soup and serving my time. But the chicken is going to lay some more eggs one day.

Man is a food-dependent creature. If you don't feed him, he will die. If you feed him improperly, part of him will die.

I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.

Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.

I could eat my body weight in sushi.

When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance an ounce.

i will live by the gun and die by the gun