I also felt guilty about the three pens I'd stolen, but only for a second. And since there was no convenient way to give them back, I stole a bottle of ink before I left.

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.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

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.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

Misunderstandings arise only in undefined relationships

There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them.

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

Be Godlike then; and in all ways and by all means so live that all may say of you, 'He has been with Jesus'.

My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.

I like sneakers. I guess I could call myself a collector.

I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

There is something cathartic about having absolute loss articulated.

My advice would be that once [Donald Trump] enters office, there should be a separation, a blind trust or some kind of blind trust.

[T]he Constitution was a product of its times. [Progressive]