In that smooth fortress of glass, I caught a glimpse of my corruption gripping steel, which before I had thought of as my salvation, but now represented my obliteration.

The walls that caged me were not of this world, but were within my mind.

The melodious song mesmerized me and cloaked my soul in a most liberating embrace I had never known. The emotion enveloped me, and smothered the emptiness.

These were people who hunted for a way to erase the haunted, malnourished gaze from their souls and replace it with their faith in freedom and safety.

Some say if you want success surround yourself with successful people. I say if you want true and lasting success surround yourself with people of integrity.

... A man's wife can hold him devilish uneasy, if she begins to scold and fret, and perplex him, at a time when he has a full load for a railroad car on his mind already.

I fed my yak on my spare Cadbury chocolate 21, 0000ft up Everest. It was a blonde, very sweet female yak. I made it my pet after that.

Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.

It is not love, but lack of love which is blind.

Every day is your day if you claim it. If you wait for somebody else to make it for you, you're going to be disappointed.

Okay, I'm lazy. But being lazy is a talent. Sometimes it takes an awful lot of work.

I do have a journal, that I write all my thoughts in every day. So that's kind of something. I also have a burn box where I write secrets down and put it in a box.

Success is measured simply by the amount of effort we put forth, in conquering our objectives.

My newspaper job … is my identity.