My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.
In life you don't get everything you pay for, but you must pay for everything you get.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .
The opposite of compromise is character.
Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
Every time we sin in thought, word, or deed, we're essentially saying in that moment that, "I don't need you God. I don't want you God. I like my way better than your way. "
I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the level of success I've had. I was just writing stories for my own sons.
I'm for the death penalty, I'm pro-abortion, I'm pro-assisted suicide, I'm pro-regular suicide. Anything that'll get the traffic moving.