Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.

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.

My mother says: 'People who suffer from anxiety are usually those with the most vivid imaginations.

Pardon not wrath is God's best attribute.

All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!

The Russians did much bigger space launch vehicles for launching satellites and for getting men in orbit. They did that much sooner than America because America was very good at something else.

Quite simply it is love. It is the unconditional love that says, regardless of what you do or where you go, I will always be there for you.

Losing the Super Bowl is worse than death. You have to get up the next morning.

Christianity has nothing to offer a happy man living in a natural, intelligible universe.

Sometimes it's a little depressing - why does the world need any more pictures?

I obviously think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.

Even the promiscuous feel pain.