The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.

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.

Don’t feel ashamed of working hard! Believe that things will change.

There is a dangerous willful ignorance in governments to the adverse health effects of the various forms of electromagnetic radiation.

If you like to live an abundant life, express joy and gratitude for what you have.

I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.

You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.

Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.

Above all, remember that the computer simply isn't as intelligent as you are.

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

A painting has its own existence and reality, and I make changes freely to meet the painting's needs. This sometimes takes me in another direction.