The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.

Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.

Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.

The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

If you must doubt something, doubt your limits.

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

The more you worry about your spending, the less you focus on increasing your capacity.

The day of birth is day of life.

Just the night before, a puma’s howl had set a chill at my spine and, man, life didn’t get any richer than that.

For basic survival, as for evolution, we have to accept the past as the creator of the present, influence the future, and act in the present.

The future of wildlife and the habitat that they depend on is being destroyed. It is time to make nature and all the beauty living within it our priority.

The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.

What I'd like to do now - well, what I'd like to do now is grow my beard very long, weave it into my pubes and strum it like a harp.

I'm so centered in feeling great about me that I can give great things to my son and my husband and my family.

All consolation that does not come from God is but desolation; when the soul has learned to receive no comfort but in God only, it has passed beyond the reach of desolation.

Thousands of years ago only Christ could walk on the water. Today anybody can do it; you just step on the garbage.