It is possible to wish so greatly for the unattained that in time you believe it has been won - indeed, you can even remember the winning of it.

the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.

our deeds have even less substance than we ourselves.

one pities most those who loved, and still died. Only those who love, dread death.

Bad enough to make mistakes, without going ahead and marrying them.

It is less difficult to look beyond ... and foretell the future, than to look back and remember what has already gone before.

it's been my experience that while impossible things happen frequently, improbable ones never do.

things never seem as bad as they are.

... the world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists. ... a kind of perfection of existence was always close at hand, and no one reached for it.

If the farmer is rich, then so is the nation.

...each part of a story, each word if possible, was to work frontally as well as laterally... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

Self-discovery is a journey of questioning yourself.

I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field.

I want to build a course my mum can enjoy.

There are lots of things I really like besides girls. Like pizza. And pranking. And CHUCK NORRIS.

You soon learn there’s no elegance or dignity in death if you spend time in the castle kitchens. You learn how ugly it is, and how good it tastes.

The Bible is a stream of running water, where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb walk without losing its feet.

Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.