He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.

Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.

She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.

Metal rusts, music lasts forever.

Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.

No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!

I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.

There was no arguing with a man when he started saying thing like that -- using logic as a weapon.

The world judges the Christian by his life, not by his belief.

Decide exactly what you want and resolve to persist, no matter what, until you achieve it.

Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.

My wife is Mexican and my constituency is very, very multicultural.

Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.

A man can get killed in there.

If manners maketh the man as someone said, then he's the hero of the day.

Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.

There was nothing more painful than hurting someone you loved.