One can repent of a sin and have done with it

Achieving a goal is not the most important part of the process. The destination should never be your primary purpose or objective.

Imperfections & failure are as much a blessing as our talents & success. Together we must dare to be ourselves so that we may live beyond our wildest dreams

No matter what, if you have the strength of life, it is enough to be thankful.

I have a suspicious mind, and murder is kind of my business.

I think all people want freedom, but they've got this idea inserted into their head about money.

Things never happen exactly how you think they will.

When speech is given to a soul holy and true, time, and its dome of ages, becomes as a mighty whispering-gallery, round which the imprisoned utterance runs, and reverberates forever.

But what I realize, here, now, is that it's not actually making the choice that takes courage. It's facing it afterward. Owning up to it, whether it's good or bad.

We must teach more by example than by word.

...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.