Full emergency power to the engines. Ram the Blade ship.

...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

I would rather die fighting for what is right, than live passively amidst all that is wrong.

Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead . . . for in imagination, we can create wonders.

This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.

Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.

I still swing the way I used to, but when I look up the ball is going in a different direction.

There are times in this life when a person must do or say things he doesn't want to. Human beings and chains, it is the oldest acquaintanceship in the world.

This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.

What are you going to do with your freedom?

Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.