See yourself as a long-term work in progress, not a short-term project of preservation.

Life is a dance more than it is an assertion and there is more health in dynamism or fluidity than there is rigidity and stasis.

This world is your world but that doesn't mean you can always stop it from burning.

The final lesson is that 'reality' is always the way to go and that acceptance is the only way to get there.

Nobody is going to save you but yourself and the ‘best’ and only way to do so isthrough action.

If humans created it then it is the product of a choice that somebody made. And if it was chosen it can be changed.

There are two types of 'busy': 1)Constantly distracting yourself from what is true. 2) Constantly working to create something real.

If we go in to each situation that life throws at us with an attitude that we canlearn from it then we will never be truly defeated.

Only ever doing what feels comfortable is a form of suicide.

It is essential to our health and happiness that we dedicate ourselves to some kind of mission or purpose that transcends the mundane hustle and bustle of daily living.

Idealism + Inaction = Depression

Without hope we fail to exist.

The only woman who would wear a gown like this one, love, is one who knows the power she wields and isn’t afraid to use it.

Never compel yourself to say words to which the heart yields no response.

The food I've liked in my time is American country cookin'.

If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy.

Racism and hatred are synonymous.

I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.

As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.

Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant.

There is nothing new in state interventionism. It is as old and reactionary as societal organization itself. Always, when it permeates the body politic, it kills the nation.