One day you'll have a quiet heart.

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.

If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin.

The system shaves the dice on the side of those with money and power, and anyone who believes otherwise deserves anything that happens to him.

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.

And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.

How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?

...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.

When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well.

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.

Focusing on the beauty of life is insight. Enjoying the beauty of life is happiness.

When there is no presence of self-love, the hunger for attention tends to take over one's mind

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

In March of that year, I saw a man named Paul Barkley shot to death. It happened late at night in the parking lot of a café in Santa Rosa called Galileo’s.

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.

Nobody is going to dictate our freedom.

The first thing you do when you get out to center field is put up your finger and check the wind chill factor.

Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.

Movement should be approached like life - with enthusiasm, joy and gratitude - for movement is life, and life is movement, and we get out of it what we put into it.