Ambrose, your presence is the horseshit frosting on the horseshit cake that is the admissions interview process.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles

Sometimes to find the light switch you need to wander in the dark.

Reincarnation contains a most comforting explanation of reality by means of which Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the thinkers of Europe.

Istanbul owes its extraordinary situation to Golden Horn, Marmara Sea and The Bosphorus.

There is nothing the Church of today needs so much as Spiritual Power; and there is nothing which we can have so easily, if only we are prepared to pay the price.

A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players "see" situations before they happen so they can be prepared

Money is a living thing.

Restrict bankruptcy rules.

The enthusiasm for [Donald] Trump had gone up. The net result was it made people more supportive of him.

A man feels impelled to do something to keep awake.