Talent is helpful in writing but guts are absolutely necessary.

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.

God created everyone uniquely and for a purpose, and not to be on this earth as a passive spectator

I have all the power, but you will destroy me. “Only your walls, Lark.” He deepened the kiss, licking into my mouth as if he knew he’d find me there hiding from him.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.

Change doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington

I have a lot of conservative views on a lot of things.

It's nice to have a game that sells a million copies.

I expect this is what death is like when you meet it. Sort of wildly unfair but inevitable.

I have nothing intelligent to say.

He'd be better off shoveling snow.