If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.

Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material.

A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life.

The difference between you and me is that you think to live and I live to think.

Every thought vibrates through the universe.

Men would always rather be made love to than talked at.

Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.

The better you hear a thing put, the more certain you are there's another view.

Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them.

Life ought to be lived on a basis of silence, where truth blossoms.

Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.

You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.

Your life is lived in a day, so focus on living one good day by successfully designing, creating and living that good day and duplicating it.

Honesty is the best insurance policy.

The only way to retrieve a secret, once known, is to replace it with a lie.

Both were military. That was clear.Reacher could tell by their haircuts. No civilian barber would be as pragmatic or as brutal.

I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.

Gotham City. Clean shafts of concrete and snowy rooftops. The work of men who died generations ago. From here, it looks like an achievement. From here, you can't see the enemy.

I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel.

A player must be able to skate, have hockey sense, be able to shoot, but not necessarily be able to score.

My first joint I smoked onstage in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I smoked my first joint live.