You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.

Courage is nothing more than taking one step more than you think you can.

Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.

Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.

I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.

Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.

If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses.

The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.

The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book

This is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and hope the creature lives.

The abundance of life is in the number of people it influences and gives legacy

Try again

He who is afraid of suffering, is already suffering fear. Out of fear, true creativity is blocked.

Wouldn’t a no one do as well as a someone about whom nothing can be said?

You will never have a better friend than a friend who points you to Christ.

The outside world doesn't have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.

Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected.

When something is dramatized it provokes a much more emotive response than just hearing a story on the news.

We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy in so many areas.

The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.