Cormac McCarthy

"Dreams are what keep you going when everything else fails."

"Humor is a way of coping with the unbearable. It's a necessity, not a luxury."

"Most people don't change. They just get older and more set in their ways."

"Gratitude is a rare thing. Most people never experience it."

"Creativity is just connecting things. The more you know, the more you can create."

"Justice is something humans invented to make themselves feel better about their cruelty."

"Patience is not the absence of action. Patience is the action of waiting."

"Strength is not something you're born with. It's something you build."

"Money is the root of all evil, but the lack of it is worse."

"Health is not the absence of disease. Health is the presence of vitality."

"Adventure is what separates a life lived from a life endured."

"Technology is just a tool. It's how you use it that matters."

"War is a failure of imagination. If we could imagine peace, we could create it."

"Motivation is fleeting. Discipline is permanent."

"Inspiration comes from desperation, not from happiness."

"Your relationships are your life. Everything else is just details."

"Solitude is not loneliness. Solitude is communion with yourself."

"The only true measure of success is whether you've become the person you wanted to be."

"Happiness is a by-product of engagement, not a goal in itself."

"Friendship requires a kind of bravery. You have to be willing to be known."

"Family is the only thing that's real. Everything else is just noise."

"Hope is the most dangerous thing. It's what keeps you alive when you should be dead."

"Peace is not the absence of conflict. Peace is the presence of understanding."

"Nature is indifferent to your suffering. It simply continues."

"Artists are people who refuse to accept the world as it is."

"Science is just the latest religion. It has replaced faith with facts."

"Music is the only language that bypasses the rational mind."

"Faith is believing in something you can't prove. That's what makes it faith."

"Leadership is the burden of knowing what no one else knows and bearing it alone."

"Work is how you prove yourself to the world and to yourself."