Alas, how easily things go wrong!A sigh too much, a kiss too longAnd there follows a mist and a weeping rainAnd life is never the same again

Past tears are present strength.

It may seem strange that one with whom I had held so little communion should have so engrossed my thoughts, but benefits conferred awaken love in some minds, as surely as benefits received in others.

You had better not open that door.

We all want to go there something awful, but to stand there takes some grace.

All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between.

We just can't change the rules if we don't like the results.

If I knew what the picture was going to be like I wouldn’t make it. It was almost like it was made already – the challenge is more about trying to make what you can’t think of.

There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

I have therefore concluded to apply for the privilege of becoming a Cadet at West Point.

We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can't copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company.

Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought they conferred sight

The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

You don't know what God can do with your broken pieces until you give God your broken pieces.