Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

She always wanted to believe in things.

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.

You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.

Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?

Maybe all of us at Hailsam had little secrets like that -- little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone without fears and longing.

when we were eleven, say, we really weren't interested in each other's poems at all. . . . But we didn't know a thing about poetry. We didn't care about it.

It might be just some trend that came and went, ' I said. 'But for us, it's our life.

let your haters be your motivators

My son will wear the title well, the Duke thought, and realized with a sudden chill that this was another death thought.

Failure's still something I can say I've achieved

To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.

Domination has its own aesthetics, and democratic domination has its democratic aesthetics.

Your ability to survive depends on your attitude

Don't lower your standards for anything or anyone.

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.

It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position

It is Christlike work to soothe and sympathize, and only those who have drunk the cup of sorrow are fully equipped to do it.