The choices she's made have left her without choice.

A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.

It's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.

You don't choose what to believe. Belief chooses you.

... life is a series of tiny, unavoidable decisions.

A bullet leaves evidence that a mortar doesn't.

Contentment is the joy of life

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Success is causing the world around you to aspire to your inspiration.

For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering.

Just like styles change, music changes.

My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way.

The greatest danger of being gifted, is that you may never learn how to make an effort.

My diet is much better. I eat what I have to. The older you get, the better you get at making sacrifices.

The brain has a good error rate. But, the point is, you can function with that error rate. Animals do a lot of guesswork.