If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

Courage is nothing more than taking one step more than you think you can.

Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.

Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.

I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.

Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.

If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses.

You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.

The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.

The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book

Your message is only as loud as the actions that accompany it. Live your message and it will be heard loud and clear.

God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality.

Watch an Ant, Watch the bees, feel wind move the leaves. Touch your smile above your chin from the glorious world we all live in.

My mouth blooms like a cut.

I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.

When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the modus operandi of a mutual frustration society.

We must remember always that the essential quality of the wilderness is its wildness.

If I had to choose between baseball’s Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship.

Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you really don't believe anything, and you're in the worst kind of despair.

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.