If the beard gives a modifier to seduction, I'm guessing it's not a positive one.

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 could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.

Don’t let the world tell you who you are. You get up and you tell the world who you are.

I've always known my dad is a one-off and his own person. But I feel that underneath he has always loved me.

Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.

Pigs may like honey, but that doesn't stop it being sweet.

We need to move beyond asking what drug will treat the symptoms, and instead ask what mechanism creates altered neurochemical or neurobiological function or systemic physiological change.

It should therefore be difficult in a republic to declare war; but not to make peace.

I felt that America's duty was not to try to do everything itself, but to foster a sense of commitment that would bring out the best in every country.

I'll get kicked around for saying it, but men and women are just different. They're not equal. The same way that you and I are not equal.

Two religions cannot both be right, because they contradict each other, yet they can both be wrong.