If you're a foolhardy, braggadocios male figure who wants to charge forward in every fight, it has its pros and its cons, that's for sure.

You don't touch my face! It's a birth right! This was given to me by God! You do not touch my face!

Even if the character is something that seems ridiculous on paper, there's a human element to everything. Otherwise, we don't connect with it.

If it looks stupid on a rooster, it's probably gonna look stupid on you.

Being intercontinental champion doesn't mean you're a champ. It means you're the future.

It's amazing to see that people came to see you. That, that was their wish.

I can literally hear you getting fatter.

This face was given to me by God!

If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.

To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this.

Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.

You will express yourself in your house whether you want to or not.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]

I don't trust anyone who hasn't been self-destructiv e in some way, and who hasn't gone through some sort of bout of self-loathing. You've got to bang yourself around a bit to know yourself.

Knowledge isn’t love

Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.

Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.

Presidents are not permitted to have personal feelings.