Stay unknown until you know what you want to be known for.#StokesNotes

Hope was a fool’s emotion.

Although we try to control it in a million different ways, the only things you can ever really do to time are enjoy it, or waste it. That’s it.

It you watch a game it's fun. If you play it it's recreation. If you work at it it's golf.

I must confess, when I see anyone with an Obama 2012 bumper sticker, I recognize them as a threat to the gene pool.

What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.

I've spent hundreds of hours working over words, and part of me, a large part of me, has a desire to do something else.

Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.

We fall privately before we ever fall publicly.

People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if there’s room.

Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.