We all end up in the same place. Some sonner than others.

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.

If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin.

The system shaves the dice on the side of those with money and power, and anyone who believes otherwise deserves anything that happens to him.

You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home.

And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.

How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?

...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.

When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well.

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.

To be forgiven is to be loved

You were born with the power to change others. You change people by the way you treat them. That is what changes the human heart.

There is atleast one day for women but what about men's day?

We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain.

Though we claim to believe the whole of Scripture, in practice we frequently deny much of it by ignoring it.

Somewhere there is an essence. It is not a physical somewhere. There is no sense of world, of time and space. That is nirvana.

My parents always pushed creativity on us, but they made it seem like the fun thing to do.

My life's a mess. I'm not afraid to admit it.

As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters.

In 2012 President Obama didn't go anywhere near African-American communities. Why? Because unemployment was so high there, he didn't want to address it.