If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.

The activities you are most afraid of are the activities that can cause a breakthrough in your success. Step into them.

To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.

Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you your life

Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.

I wanted to have something that I was proud of and that I knew people would enjoy.

You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.

I am daily making myself what I am.

I'm way more comfortable around kids than I am people my own age.

Turn up your hearing aid 'Grandpa', because I'm only going to say this once!