I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally charming, someone would have stabbed you by now.

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.

I lost a lot of people when I found myself.

I’ve been living on the edge for so long, my friends call me Cliff

Don't be telling me--can't be done. That's some god damney white talk, that's what that is.

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.

To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.

I've never really wanted to go to Japan, simply because I don't like eating fish and I know that's very popular out there in Africa.

Bette Davis had very strong opinions and was not afraid to express them. She wasn't afraid of anything that I ever saw. And she was so funny. She's just funny and she was laughing all the time.

New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South

A gourmet can tell from the flavor whether a woodcock's leg is the one on which the bird is accustomed to roost.