to have goals without a plan and a time limit was as useless as having no goals at all.

when one's avenue of retreat is cut off there is only one way to go - forward.

most of them are already so puffed up with their imagined importance that they have no idea how silly they sound.

Skill, education, money aren't the difference makers, passion is. If you've passion to achieve something, there's nothing that can stop you.

Sometimes a person can say I’m sorry a thousand times and that glue will never dry.

Forgive me, Bertrand, for having on that day loved in you a beauty in which your self-esteem could take no pride, which could not in any way determine my affection.

Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.

Gratitude is what we are without a story.

I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.

We should make sure that nobody, no corporation, and no individual can get away without paying his fair share to support America.

I believe in collaboration. I think that is the most entertaining and effective way to write for me, personally.

In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.

The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.