No nation was ever ruined by trade.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned.

Well done is better than well said.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

You can do anything you set your mind to.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.

Do the good work, with the resources you have.

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.

I think that we all carry the divine within us.

You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home.

It was really impulsive. I was just like, I'm cutting it! And then it was just all gone.

Regarding Fasting: Have the faith to bind the Lord.

I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?

Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline.

Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.