At some point your candle will go out, so make use of the light.

You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.

Time spent doing whatever it is you do to escape your daily life would be better spent acquiring a life that needs no escape.

It shouldn't take a life-changing event to spark change in your life.

I have often believed the pen to be a needle, and ink to be a thread. Each story is an intricately woven tapestry and with each word I invariably sew a piece of myself into the page.

It shouldn't take a life-changing event for you to change your life.

I may be going nowhere, but what a ride.

And the man who dreamt of flight has tripped and fallen in a hole.

We are more than the person who wakes each day. We are the dreams of the previous night and the nightmares of the week before.

The death of a lesser man is the death of all those who believe themselves to be greater.

This is for you, for your breath, whose absence would lessen a greater world.

Did you seriously just use the word 'loins'?

You can't ever be your heroes, but you can love their gifts.

Luck ... taps once in a lifetime at everybody's door but if industry does not open it luck goes away.

Very good laws may be ill timed.

I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had.

Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.

You stay in touch with the boy who dreamed impossible dreams.

During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: “Look out! They're about to smack you around again!

Don't slay that potato, let us be merciful please.

When you hit a plateau you have to be willing to get a little bit worse before you get massively better.