The path up and down is one and the same.

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Big results require big ambitions.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

Change alone is unchanging.

Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.

What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.

Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.

Sometimes it gets talked about as if life is all about the individual, and I don't think it is. I'm really interested in what writing can contribute to a kind of cultural intelligence.

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.

After awhile, marriage gets a little stale and you're looking for something to scratch that a little.

Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting.

Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.

Whatever I do is out of love.

McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.

An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

Better to bear than to swear, and to die than to lie.