I didn't realise you'd ridden here on your high horse

That's all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.

And the thing about trying to cheat death is that, in the end, you still lose.

I love that there's such a rivalry. It's like, leaf water versus bean water, ya know? - Charlie

..pain can't be taken away. It has to leave on its own. And I wasn't sure mine was the type of pain that wanted to go away.

Art is pain. And so is life.

We mourn the future because it's easier than admitting that we're miserable in the present.

It was like Latham: sometimes the point wasn't being the best, because it didn't mean you had the best life, or the best friends, or the best time.

But at the last minute, I turned left, because I never had before, and because I had time to go down a different road.

The pow'r I have on you is to spare you / The malice towards you, to forgive you. Posthumus

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want." "We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to." "Thanks." Wedge & Tycho

For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.

I've got this thing where I always kind of diss the older stuff and favor the newer stuff. I mean, it's not just my thing; every artist or musician is like that, I guess.

Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child.

I always tried to manage my money smart.