Success dwells in a neighbourhood that can only be explored through failure, and it is through perfect knowledge of that neighbourhood that we gain perfect knowledge of her address

It is not courage that makes us speak the truth, but it is a hunger for truth that makes us courageous

Fortune crowns the bold before the worthy

It's by stooping that fingers create a fist, and by standing tall that they give us open palms.

The first act in the training of a warrior should be how to string his rifle and turn it into a guitar

There is only one thing worse than a little baby who won't stop crying: it is a big baby who won't stop whining about it

It is only in grammar that the mighty can be bound by rules made by the humble

Might without right makes blight

Today's troubled homes are made by parents who want to have children but don't want their children to have parents

To be laughed at draws more profitable attention than being smiled at

Fortune draws her breath through cracks that make coarse the route on which we march to success

Thoughts control your feelings, and people around you control your thoughts.

He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.

Barbarism is not the inheritance of our pre-history. It is the companion that dogs our every step.

Laughter nibbled at my lips like tiny fish in warm water.

I don't feel opportunistic ever, in anything.

There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.

The one thing you can do that the audience can't do - all those smart people online in the chat rooms can't do - is deliver a satisfying emotional journey for a human being, for a character.

I don't love you anymore. Goodbye.

Each stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the plants and the animals and the birds of the field.

I always forgive, but I never forget.