No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

If someone attacks me, and they want to punch or kick me, I can just run away. They’re not holding onto me. I can get away from them.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Where love is, there God is also.

The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it’s a shield.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.