Isn't that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.

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 knew there was something special between us, knew it as surely as a lyric that belonged in a song. But as with all good songs, I needed time to figure out the melody and chords.

Here is the truth: The journey to achievement is not a destination, it is only a stop over to the next goal.

Maturity is so often considered to be synonymous with ‘adult.’ But I truly feel that maturity may be defined by the ability to be both an adult and a child.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

I'm from out of town," he said breezily. This was true. He'd never been within a hundred light-years of the place.

Having the balance of a work life and a family life has been so good for me.

If you don't know what color to take, take black.

I like to open the doors to people's brain.

The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.

Don't wait until you feel like taking positive action. Take the action and then you will feel like doing it.