Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
One of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences.
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
There are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.
Patience is never more important than when you are at the edge of losing it.
Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered.
Those whom we support hold us up in life.
I've learned to trust that you know what you're doing, because it gets scary sometimes. There's a lot of money being spent. If you panic, then that kind of messes with the whole creative vibe. You can't force something to happen, you have to let it all come out and believe that you'll get there in the end.
A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
Other pirates leaped over the railing. One, two. . . seven. . . thirteen. A baker’s dozen. Wait, fifteen. Eighteen. . . Twenty-one. The odds weren’t in our favor. “Maybe they just came over to borrow a cup of sugar,” I said. Andrea barked a short laugh. Curran put his hand on my shoulder. “That’s a lot of sugar. Must be a big cake.