The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Beauty without expression tires.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

GTMO has been a goldmine of intelligence about radical Islamic terrorism.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

I'm quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].

In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time . . . and yet people seem to be reading [books] as much.

When your heart is broken, when your heart has cracks in it, it lets the light in.

When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people.

The feminist women's organization NOW has endorsed Carol Moseley-Braun for president. Once again NOW has shown it is so far behind the times it should change its name to THEN.

Something clenched in my chest, and for a moment, the whole world narrowed down to the green of his eyes.

I let down my guard and my heart was as good as gone.

They stared out their window at night enough to know where the darkest shadows lay, and it was to the darkest shadows they kept.