"Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most."

"The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger."

"Masochism is a valuable job skill."

"With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vowels."

"It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed."

"People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future."

"I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars."

"It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret."

"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been."

"When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news."

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship."

"If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race."