The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.

I genuinely believe that being on death row for 22 years ultimately saved my life. It was the greatest adventure of my life, and I survived it.

And I love Evander Holyfield to death!