It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.

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.

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.

Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.

Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.

She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.

Metal rusts, music lasts forever.

Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.

No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

Politicians are played by what they say and they don't do

I'm very happy being me, although sometimes I'd love to be a bird so that I could fly.

I am lonesome so regular it's like a job I gotta report to every day.

What is most needed is a loving heart.

Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.

Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts every pressure on you to prove you haven't got what it takes.

Oh for the sweet humpin' love of Tink! ~ Jenks

Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe.