Rise to the challenges that life presents you. You can't develop genuine character and ability by sidestepping adversity and struggle.
The heart is what is important." There is nothing more vulnerable, nothing more corruptible than the human mind; nor is there anything as powerful, steadfast and ennobling.
"Those who give up dreams, do injury to their own hearts and cannot possibly enjoy a profound sense of fulfillment in the end.
You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.
USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.
Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t.
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.
Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.
The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations.
Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms.
I had the feeling that Sarajevo was the perfect place to shoot the film I wanted to shoot. It is the perfect illustration of purgatory.
Towards the end of the season it is not bad to have the body. To have experienced joy as the mere lifting of hunger is not to have known it less.
The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.
Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.
I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.
Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.
We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.
Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine living any other way.
