Maturity is learning not to be run by your emotions. You control your emotions

If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do.

The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are.

Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.

I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.

[T]he Christian is unable to sin and not care ... They may sin, but they cannot do so comfortably and continually. They are very much aware of their wrong actions, and they are very miserable.

Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.

Take the helm and sail your own ship. Don't just get into the boat with nobody at the helm and merely hope that the waves of life take you somewhere good.

The Suicide, as she is falling, Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appallingThe thought she will be dead so soon.

A man becomes what he dreams. And I dreamed of being in the movies. I was brought up on Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, and Cary Grant.

I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.

The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.

The harder you work and the more you sear and bleed for a win, the sweeter that victory tastes.

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist

Spiritually, we're all on a path. I haven't declared of defined myself because as soon as you declare yourself you're identifying with a certain dogma.

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.

To go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes