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.

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.

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

This is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and hope the creature lives.

Never run from the truth. It is always there

When you start to fall, don't try to talk yourself out of it. The right man will be there at the bottom, to catch you.

When my friends lack an eye I look at them in profile.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

When one must, one can.

The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology.

Being part of a patriarchal society, it kind of helped me figure out what I was all about.

Dharma doesn't necessarily mean following a mundane and boring life. It means a life of high adventure, not a life of endless, boring repetition.

To be a kid is to be invisible and to listen, and to interpret things that aren't necessarily meant for you to hear--because how else do you find out about the world?

Swimming always cleans your soul