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

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.

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.

You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.

What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.

I’m glad I married you too, Harper, ” I whispered into her hair, “because I’m in love with you.” But she didn’t hear, gone into a dream.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

I think his [Reagan's] policy toward the Soviet Union was more risky than most people realize, and it was risky because of the paranoia and fear among the isolated old guard in Moscow.

Power and courtly influence form an intoxicating draught even when raised to the lips of an ascetic and a saint.

I think that a lot of us at home are iron chefs in their own right in that we have to come up with meals real quickly.

Like thousands of other boys, I had a little chemical laboratory in our cellar and think that some of our friends thought me a bit crazy.

There's a ghost in this house! An unquiet spirit!" Unquiet spirit?" Shane said under his breath. "Is that politically correct for pissed off? You know, like Undead American or something?

Wrestling hurts. Your body's not meant to take that abuse. I've closed that door, but I don't know that I've locked it for good.

It provides a different type of element and mental strain athletes love. That's what makes the game of golf so special.