Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

Act with the heart of the warrior.

The closest to perfection people ever come is when they write their resumes .

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will

I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.

Learning presence is a stress buster.

I would just listen to the complaints about what I do instead of celebrating what I do, and that I'm different and in my own lane. It took a while for me to just ignore the doubts.

I made True Detective like it was going to be the only thing I ever made for television. So put in everything and the kitchen sink. Everything.

There are things one must do for oneself.

I've always felt alone and isolated, and living on the West Coast, there's no poetry community out here, and if there is, it's really spread out - because it's LA, it's spread out.

Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry