I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.

It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.

Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience

What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.

For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.

To light a candle is to cast a shadow...

I was with you at the beginning of your journey. It is right that I should follow you to its end.

The truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing but does only and wholly what he must do.

I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And answer'd: 'I Myself am Heav'n and Hell

Life is neither a party nor pain. But a prayer.

A team goal requires a team effort.

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

The atmosphere of Venus consists of ammonia, sulfur, and nitric oxide. Man must have lived there once.

I think the interesting aspect of life is that you're always sort of in the middle. You're never the youngest and you're never the oldest.

A banker is a person who is willing to make you a loan if you present sufficient evidence to show you don't need it.

In 2013, there were 6,261 black homicide victims in the US — almost all killed by black civilians.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

However I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there's not a lot of thought and calculation that goes into it.