In the end, it's all about perseverance.

There is nothing fatherly about time and what it does to us, either.

Don't tell me what's necessary, you presumptupus pup. What's necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be.

Duty doesn't need to call; it only needs to whisper. And if you heed the call, no matter what happens, you have no need for regret." Odd Thomas

There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.

Although the human heart is selfish and arrogant, so many struggle against their selfishness and learn humility; because of them, as long as there is life, there is hope that beauty lost can be rediscovered, that what has been reviled can be redeemed.

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.