Training with confidence is the only way to train

You will train always for a hundred terrific reasons. Quit and it will be for no good reason at all.

Moderation assures mediocrity -- nice, safe. Mediocrity is for the mediocre -- simple, okay. The intense rule; the mediocre follow.

The secret is there is no secret.

God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.

There is a difference between giving-up and strategic disengagement. Know the difference.

Still yourself to steel yourself.

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd be a painter or an art teacher or something like that.

The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.

The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.

I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late ’60s and ’70s and I guess I’ve inherited that awareness from her.

A random group of homeless people under a bridge would be far more intellectually sound and principled than anything I've encountered at the university so far.