You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Don't stumble over something behind you.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.

People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.

I was writing songs as a kid about leprechauns and Catwoman and teapots - whatever it is that little girls wanna sing about.

I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.

The expert at anything was once a beginner.

But civlyzation doos git forrid Sometimes upon a powder-cart.

I'm trying to get under people's skin in a way. I don't like films that go in one ear and out the other.

Muffled lives explode in understatements.

Or perhaps all those things you missed upon first glance mean much more than you could ever guess.

I want to give myself totally to Him...I want to live no longer but for Him.