Take the high road. People will rise up to join you or fall out of sight.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?

The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.

When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.

If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

But time passes. Fear becomes a memory. Terror becomes routine it loses its grip.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.

I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.

Mad? Is one who has solved the secret of life to be considered mad?

Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage.

I'm not sure I want all my neuroses cleared up

Show the World where you're from, show the World we are one.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

Mary had a crypto key, she kept it in escrow, and everything that Mary said, the Feds were sure to know.