The desire to write grows with writing.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Fortune favors the audacious.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

Bill Belichick is the best professional football coach I think ever lived. I'm upset that I played for a plethora of teams and never got an opportunity to play for Bill Belichick.

If things are getting darker, the problem is with us.

Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart - it's all a person has.

The refugees flee to protect their families from violence; the Europeans, on the other hand, fear for their jobs that they need to feed their families.

We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.

The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.

I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.

Christ's purpose was to really show how everyone can be loved and how everyone should be loved and accepted.

It's important not to ditch your mates when you're in a relationship. Lots of girls do it, but you need to remember they will always be there for you.

The only thing I can't control is the spin in the press. And so if I know I can't control that, I have to let it go.