The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

From the end spring new beginnings.

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

In wine, there's truth.

She took his hand, and he smiled down at her. "No mating yet?" "It depends on how...persuasive you could be." "Hot damn, woman. I can be persuasive.

I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what´s cool.

My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.

And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.

Your success is determined by how much you can really learn from your failures.

Somewhere back a whiskey or so ago I wrote that thinking was a real thing in the world, just like anything else. I mean that very literally, materially. And it's true about poems, too.

What is really important to me is a sense of humour and a mischief about life. Life is just too boring otherwise.

Sometimes you have to wander around until you find where you really belong. And sometimes it's right where you started.