Every choice is a loss. The past is not where you left it.

What we feel is mortal, and won't come again.

One of the most terrifying things I fear is not my potential, but how much regret I’ll die with should I never use it.

When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefiting others, one needs to be engaged, involved. This is action out of compassion.

The hole calls the thiefe. [The hole calls the thief.]

I feel my sinews slackened with the fright, and a cold sweat trills down all over my limbs, as if I were dissolving into water.

Country music... doesn't bend notes in the same way, so I suppose it's very English, really. Even though it's been very Americanized, it feels very close to me, to my roots, so to speak.

I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.

Newton found that a star, examined through a glass tarnished by smoke, was diminished into a speck of light. But no smoke ever breathed so thick a mist as envy or detraction.

A life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth.