It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

People who keep journals have life twice

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.

We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.

The things you should value most in this life are NOT things.

No use in crying over a boy because there are plenty more just like him

Right now you are in a completely different reality than you were 10 seconds ago.

I'm tenacious and no is not a good answer to give me.

The people I choose to work with, I work with because I'm already impressed with them.

One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like allowing friends to drift away through simple neglect.

Tap into people's emotions. We've all been put to sleep by a speaker who just gives the facts. You must tap into people's feelings.

It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior