The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.

You can truly grieve for every officer who's been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled by cases of police overreach.

Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.

I think one day youll find that you're the hero you've been looking for.

I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.

You have to develop a style that suits you and pursue it, not just develop a bag of tricks.

It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance.

The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

It may sound corny, but what's wrong with wanting to fight for your country. Why are people reluctant to use the word patriotism?

You must be oh-so smart, or oh-so pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant...and you may quote me.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

Anyway, that's the past, and what matters is the future. That's how life works, because it's short and precious and kind of doubtful.

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.

Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.

My boys don't play as much as they used to, but when we do go out and play, it gets competitive, that's for sure - there's no question about it.

for the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity.

Every man makes a god of his own desire