True ability is undisturbed by pretentious criticism.

We like to think we're in control but we never are.

How strange it is beholding this, and, very confident, proclaim that such magnificenceoccurred by accident.

Life did come with a manual.

Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind.

If you can't write, read.If you can't read, walk.Or walk and read, then write.

Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way.

Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it.

It's only awkward if it matters.

You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary.

It reveals how well you value someone - the way you handle their belongings.

One of these days some simple soul will pick up the book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.

You slight yourself when you're easily slighted.

I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.

Die while alive And be thoroughly dead. Then do what you will, All is good.

Man is naturally more desirous of a quiet and approving, than of a vigilant and tender conscience--more desirous of security than of safety.

There is nothing we cannot do if we harness the power within us.

On a relative level where we live, we need to have a sense of identity, otherwise we'd fall apart, wouldn't we?

Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped.