Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is

Bravery is listening even when you don't want to hear it.

I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.

If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.

Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?

Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.

My focus is on a ring, and giving the best individual performance I can.

Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer.

I'm curious to see what happens in England because in all this madness I think I can always go home to England and it'll all turn off.

No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul.

The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.