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.

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.

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.

When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.

Those who say – “I need Motivation” will never create Inspiration that will take them to their Destination.-RVM

You can’t live an unhealthy lifestyle and expect a healthy outcome.

Men do not greet one another like this ... except perhaps at rugby club dinners.

If structure does not tell us anything about function, it means that we have not looked at it correctly.

Family time is the best time.

.. an emergency stash of Thin Mints. Frickin' Girl Scouts. Those things were way to addictive. They had to be laced with crack." Charlie Davidson Fourth Grave Beneath my Feet

There is a kind of syndrome of girls who want to dirty themselves. They have the power. They control everything.

When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood.

I was never encouraged to believe anything. I was brought up in a profoundly agnostic or pantheistic community.

I mean the NHL never called me and wanted me to show up at the draft.