Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was going to be blown to pieces.

Religions change; beer and wine remain.

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void

Southward, two mighty ranges of the Appalachians shouldered their way into the blue distance like tremendous caravans marching across eternity.

Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done.

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

But to us, probability is the very guide of life.

The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

The greatest quality that a person can possess is the quality of self-belief. If you believe you can, you can. If you believe you won't, you most certainly won't.

We must believe in ourselves as no one else will believe in us, we must match our expectations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.

We all face death in the end. But on the way, be careful never to hurt a human heart!

I don't know how old I am because a goat ate the Bible that had my birth certificate in it. The goat lived to be twenty-seven.

You are an infinite spiritual being having a temporary human experience.