If you reach for the stars, but only touch the sky, isn't that better than never knowing the sweet taste of flight?

She took his hand, and he smiled down at her. "No mating yet?" "It depends on how...persuasive you could be." "Hot damn, woman. I can be persuasive.

Don't run from your pain — run into your pain.

It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his packBut no one can rate a burden's weightUntil it has been on his back

The greater a man's - or boy's - ignorance of the world, the more certain he is that he sits in the center of that world.

I’m an entrepreneur at heart, I’m not afraid of starting up, starting over or even failing for that matter, because the fact that I try new things in itself is a victory.

Do you like him much?'I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults.'Is he?'All boys are.

I heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men and it all sounded no different to me.

I've got the drinkers and the smokers and the eaters on my side.

Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.