I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people’s lives present themselves.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

I really don’t pay attention to the outside world when I’m incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don’t pay attention to what’s going on outside of jail, because it’s all beyond my control.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

There is no unique picture of reality.

You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across – not to just depict life – or criticize it – but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

It’s pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren’t able to live in the place you called home.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg – I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

With action films, it’s great if it’s not just driven by action, but by a good story and interesting characters, as well. Though, there’s nothin‘ like kicking butt!

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.