Simmon pushed his hair out of his eyes, laughing boyishly. "You can't argue your way out of this one! She's obviously stupid for you. And you're just plain stupid, so it's a great match.

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.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

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

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.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

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

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

I thoroughly enjoy the work I do in helping motivate and empower young girls to celebrate and love their natural selves.

Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.

It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life!

I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon.

To captain Liverpool in any game is special, but to do it in a final, would be one of the proudest moments of my life.

I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.

... freedom isn't the absence of boundaries; it's the ability to operate successfully and happily within boundaries.

There's a place in Paris where I'd like to work one day. It's called the Slow Club.

I'm higher than I expected.