I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read you can always read Shakespeare.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

the more the tree goes up in the air, the more it goes down into the earth. Remember humility in greatness.

A lot of you want me to hurry through the introduction. That's because you're so much older you don't want to waste a minute of your life.

When I cook, my brain stops completely.

At the end of the day, the task I have is just like anyone else, to prove myself through my product or work. I've really found this to be true, the name advantage is a zero sum gain.

I love working with Gary Sinise.

Never stop dreaming, because dreams DO come true.

Intelligence officers are supposed to put the facts on the table and really walk away from the policy discussion.

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so.

It was a bit of fun. But of course like anything that starts as a joke, people started to take it all seriously!