Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

People who keep journals have life twice

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

People are amazingly beautiful not because of how they look

when you do more than you learn, you leave a distinctive notable footprint on earth

It was as if she had reached into her own pocket and discovered a small pebble, as hard as a diamond, that she had forgotten belonged to her.

Rule No. 1. Make a great product. Rule No. 2. Don't forget rule No.1.

He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.

the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms

What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No, the only true economy is to arrange so that your daily labor shall be itself a joy.

Holding onto something that's gone only makes a sickness inside.

This is not love. It is a crime... You can't look the other way just because you have not experienced domestic violence with your own flesh.

So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!