There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

That which yields is not always weak.

It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.

It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others

If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.

Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade

A little truth seasons a lie like salt.

Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.

Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers

This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.

Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you

Invest your time adding value to others

Every person deserves a chance to show what they can best offer world.

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

The safest place to be is in the center of God's will.

The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.

I don't believe in director's cuts where you make things longer. The coolest thing was when the Coen brothers did a director's cut of 'Blood Simple,' and they made it shorter.

I want to be able to discuss craft but I also want to teach writers to trust their instincts and learn to listen to themselves above all others.

Fogg states that all humans are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain; to seek hope and avoid fear; and finally, to seek social acceptance and avoid rejection

Some people are going to be impatient no matter what. If I wrote two books a year, someone out there would be pissed I wasn't writing three.