Appearance is a type of power.

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.

IF WE DIE FOR THEM, I'LL KILL YOU, HARRY!

A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.

Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.

Our laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don't.

For me, I am a huge fan of Sofia Coppola and Lynn Shelton. I love Lena Dunham, like everybody else. I love Kathryn Bigelow.

As I've gotten older, I've found that I can have men as friends. I used to not be able to.

I am a little boy but I am going to do something really big in times to come.

How blind men are to Heaven's gifts!

I never want to quit playing ball, They'll have to cut this uniform off me to get me out of it

The problem I have with carbon as a bad thing issue, is that people go out and say they want to be zero carbon. You see it everywhere.