It was important to buy into the fact that the nine hundred pages an end-reader never sees are just as valuable as the ones that are bound and placed on the shelf.

No matter what we've done, no matter the disappointments and sullied blunders, today is the opportunity to do right by ourselves.

We have today and hopefully tomorrow to be the best version of ourselves.

My tunnel vision allows me to have a longer work day than most writers. I'm thankful for that.

I always feel that as the author, once I know what a character is ashamed of, then I can go about making her truthful on the page.

I'm a semi-failed writer, but I'm a capital-F Failed musician.

I just thought it was important that people knew right from the jump that I've got problems. But in all seriousness, that's a huge part of my writing process.

Today is going to be free of the past. Today, the past can't hurt me.

In my life the right question is simply this: What can I do to be happy today?

Self-respect doesn't come naturally to me. I need to constantly remind myself and do the work to err on the side of self-respect, rather than self-punishment.

I struggle with staying clean every day, and what really keeps me from doing something stupid is my daughter.

Doakes had a first name! It was Albert - had anyone ever really called him that? Unthinkable. I had assumed his name was Sergeant.

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

There seems scarcely any limit to what could be done in the way of producing a good world, if only men would use science wisely.

Aristotle's metaphysics, roughly speaking, may be described as Plato diluted by common sense. He is difficult because Plato and common sense do not mix easily.

What if compassion is also profitable? What if compassion is also good for business?

Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.

Freedom of choice must be brought to bear upon the US Medical practice.

When you attain to an egoless emptiness great creativity happens.

I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions.

Take massive action. So many people wait until they have all the answers.