Dirk Benedict Quotes

“Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.”

“Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.”

“I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.”

“If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.”

“Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.”

“I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.”

“Because we need each other. We complete each other. Duty works both ways. Love needs a beloved. Loyalty needs two to be loyalty. Fidelity is nothing without someone to be faithful to. Every dog needs a human, and every human needs a dog.”

“Revolutions arise from obstinacy. People are dissatisfied with what they are told and they develop new ideas.”

“For a writer, it seems a help rather than a hindrance to be at least a little crazy. Who but a crazy person would carve out a very private, quiet place in the world, only to pour his/her innermost thoughts and emotions onto a page for the entire world to examine? Even in fiction, we give a map to our most secret feelings. Why do writers do it? Perhaps because we'd be crazier still if we didn't.”

“I persuaded him to throw the dirk away and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself. ”