Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
Barbara Kingsolver
When you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through.
Nicholas Sparks
Write because you love it and not because it is something that you think you should do. Always write about something or somebody you know about - something that you feel deeply and passionately about. Never try and force it.
Michael Morpurgo
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R. Buckminster Fuller
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Walter Scott
In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
Bill Watterson
Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
Anne Lamott
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
Lois McMaster Bujold
All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.
Johnny Cash