If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.

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.

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground

She placed her hand on her chest and thought, 'So this is what the poets write about'.

I am always scared before going on stage this is the fear which makes me do well.

Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.

All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.

Being yourself is very sexy, you know?

But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

In your cells right now, an enzyme is making a copy of your dna in less than two hours, right in the nucleus.

Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.

If a man is not peaceful and non-violent, whichever religion he belongs to, he is not a man! Violence degrades man to a low-degree creature!