What matters more than where you are is the direction you are heading.

Happiness is a choice. Happiness does not depend on outward conditions but on inward decisions.

Each time we make a choice we are either moving toward freedom and prosperity or bondage and misery.

I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.

Make sure he's worth it. She had thought it so many times it had become a part of her. Like her tongue filling her mouth, so this tenet filled her being.

The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.

When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?

He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at sunrise.

To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.

Yes, there's genetics. Yes, there are chromosomes. Yes, there's biology. Yes, there are environment, sociology, parenting, economics, class, and all of that. But there is something else, as well.

If you can take advantage of a situation in some way, it's your duty as an American to do it.

I guess that seeing yourself on a screen is something that you get used to. Let's face it, these days, there's really nothing that you do that doesn't get filmed.

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.