So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Desire outweighs footwork when it comes to crashing the glass

It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.

Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose?

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

It's only awkward if it matters.

Positive thinkers look for good in every situation. In times of difficulty, the can find many opportunities.

When I dare to be powerful--to use my strength in the service of my vision--then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

Self-change can only come after self-understanding.

All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library.

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.

The increase in chemicals and the increase in technology, like wi-fi and cell phone use that's going through our bodies all of the time is something that is big on my radar.

It should not be a child's only goal to become the best player in the world. That would be a bad, a harmful attitude.

I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa.