It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Are you insinuatin' that my daughter is a liar?""Oh, no, not at all. I'm saying your daughter is a liar. Surely you can appreciate the difference.

Don't trust your head, Samwise, it is not the best part of you.

People helping people, builds stronger communities

I think Americans are very patriotic.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

A hundred welfare programs, spending more and more billions, lead to chronic budget deficits, which lead to increased paper-money issues, which lead to higher prices.

Servitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants.

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.

[A] theory is a very dangerous thing to have.

There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.