The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Don't stumble over something behind you.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

...there is no better time to examine and understand one’s selfhood than when it is dissected and hurtling through darkness.

Book is the best friend, have no demand, no complain

Advocating well with a personal story is not a call to simply “Insert Story Here.

Can I possibly be a good writer if I'm not healed form the story I'm telling? Will I be able to go deep enough if people find out the truth?

My goal involves a hammock, a vegetable patch, and a solar-powered house. And I hope to eventually get there.

I like everything that has to do with ghosts. If I see it, I'm all over it. We all have our thing.

Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?

Day by day, what you do is who you become.

That Arthur has not always existed seems odd to me. Like the wind on the moors and the wild winter stars, surely he has always lived . . . and always will.

When I was at home I was in a better place