The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

Every morning, wake up with the warmth and the light of the rising sun in your heart.

What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.

All SEALS in my mind are equally elite. It doesn't matter if you're SEAL Team Two, One, Six, 10, it doesn't matter. All SEALS are equally elite.

Best beauty tip is forgiveness for yourself and others

There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain.

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

If we don't go forward, we won't find anything.

I didn't have to play rugby that well, and I didn't have to play cricket that well, because I had this voice.

Dads in the family are even more important than women in the workplace. The workplace benefits from women, but the family needs dads.