It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?

Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.

It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.

There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea.

There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.

Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.

Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

Surely the Gods did not bring me safe through fire and sea only to kill me with a flux.

Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.

I've been obsessed with Michael B. Jordan since The Wire. He's so charismatic and talented. It'd be even better—we'd have interracial bisexuality!

Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to be.

But the "wise" person understands something else— that we are all connected and, therefore, his or her own happiness must include the happiness of others.

I'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it.

You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.

Most people are one car wreck away from needing somebody's help. So, I don't take anything for granted much anymore.

When the thick layers of dark clouds occupy the sky, if there is no wind at all to sweep them away, start blowing with courage and belief