He didn’t miss them. He didn’t miss any of his life, really, especially the last year. Time had simply been a bookmark. Something that held his place while he waited to finish the story.

We all hold a monster inside. The only difference is what form it takes when freed.

There are things that defy logic. Things that speak to the instinctual fear cloaked by our conscious minds.

My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international.

I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent Are quiet trees and the green listening sod; Hushed are the stars, whose power is never spent; The hills are mute: yet how they speak of God!

I vote and I do jury duty.

It's what's on the record not what labels on it. You know, that's like getting a box of cornflakes and eating the cardboard.

I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence.

The wit of men compared to that of women is like rouge compared to the rose.

I don't want to be ordinary. I'm willing to do the work. I'm willing to suffer the indignities of comedy because I want to be great. I don't want to just be good. I want to be great.

Most companies spend all their time looking for another management concept and very little time following up the one they have just taught their managers.

A man is nothing but breath and shadow.

Killing a person with a 8 cm ling blunt knife is a bloody affair.