Tremendous happiness and peace of mind are the results of loving service to others. Nobody can live fully and happily who lives only unto himself or herself.
I have always come to life after coming to books.
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts and starvation, he had lost what made him so beautiful and free. . . . One out of every three mustangs captured in south west Texas was expected to die before they were tamed. The process often broke the spirits of the other two.
If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.
If you think you can do two full-time jobs, people will expect you to do three.
We are like horses that must be broken; basically that one should submit to a pastor even if he is wrong.