When a man marries he takes a bigger risk than the woman, because she can march out with his kids, his money, his home, and his dog.

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible.

It doesn't matter how we were raised. We become the person we choose to be.

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.

We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.

You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each of our lives becomes meaningful.

All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.

It’s as if he’s trodden in my footsteps, seen what I’ve seen, felt what I’ve felt, as I’ve criss-crossed the moors countless times.

You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.

Wanting to become stronger than everybody else has no meaning.

We can't afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be.

It was fun to talk too much [as Jebediah Woodley], to keep running your mouth whether the other characters want to hear it or not. That's part of what made this guy fun.

Let your words be the genuine picture of your heart.

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

When you take responsibility over others you have to be actually Selfless.

Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.