He'd never been an optimist. He saw the world as it was, or he tried to. That was a problem, though, when the truth he saw was so terrible.

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.

In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

One can have a wit, but not a witless

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barba

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

Don't cook that chicken - it still has feathers.

I wanted to [share] what a gracious kind of guy George Mitchell was.

A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it's really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it's great.

I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

I have always loved things that are timeless and get better with age.

I can make beleive I have everything, but I can't pretend that I don't see that without you in my life is complete.

O dearer far than light and life are dear.