All good things pass away.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.

One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.

If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.

You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.

There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think I’d rather not know what’s in the future. I’ll stick to the present.

When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.

That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

Hope holds you fast like an anchor so you don't give way.

when you're young you do think that things last forever unfortunately they don't Lyra.

Never allow your thoughts and beliefs to turn you against your true positive self.

We are stuck on the obvious of this world, and it so fills our minds and our beings that there is little room for anything else, even if that "obvious" is merely a small part of what is real.

Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity

He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouthes at us, is courteous.

Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be.

When you take the U out of mourning, it's a brand new day!

The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the Everly Brothers.

I'm stubborn. I'm hardheaded. I don't do what I don't want to do.

Oh, I know what the ladies like.

Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.