Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'

You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.

Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else.

That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.

One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.

Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.

The biggest doubts come in the five minutes after I hit send.