My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.

I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.

I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.

Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.

Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit.

Hespe's mouth went firm. She didn't scowl exactly, but it looked like she was getting all the pieces of a scowl together in one place, just in case she needed them in a hurry.

Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.

...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.

Little by little, the look of the land changes by the men we admire.

In football you always get judged on your last game. Whoever you are, or how amazing you are, it's the last game that everyone has seen.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

My mother always said to me, 'You're going to have to work harder and have to be better, and you can't take no for an answer'.

As much as everything can seem to be about patterns in your self and others, within the drama of all that, it's really all about knowing.

The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.

Who knows but that you will get up to find that the world has inverted itself yet again?

Boeing started a new line for their 787 Dreamliner, creating 1,000 new jobs in South Carolina, giving our state a shot in the arm when we truly needed it.

I feel my life has more meaning because I am responsible for another life, although I don't have control over what Lucian - my son - is going to do. He's definitely going to carve his own way.

Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad news.