People love to see death. It reminds them that however mean, however low, however horrible their lives become… at least they have one.

You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.

It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.

If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.

I've made peace with myself. Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win. Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.

The Bible is the constant fountain for faith, conduct, and inspiration from which we drink daily.

Sadness doesn't equal weakness, sweetheart. If anything, it shows the love you have inside of you, and nothing stronger in this world exists.

The personal values managers reported being the most under pressure to compromise to do their jobs successfully: 1. Family 2. Integrity.

Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage.

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

We do most of what we do out of our sexual energy and our sexual needs.

I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.

As American education and intelligence becomes replaced by feelings and emotion, not seeing the forest for the trees has become a major problem.