The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.

When business leaders talk about the next quarter, they ought to sometimes be talking about the next quarter century.

I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.

I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid.

We think-although of course, now, we very seldom Clearly think- That the other side of War is Peace.

If you hung him for being a good singer, you'd be hanging an innocent man!

With the exception of my wife and children, there's nothing I value more than my Oklahoma heritage.

All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.

Because it's simple, I love you, and I don't want to keep pretending like I don't. -Rose to Dimitri

The moment you believe your own crap and excuses, you fail.

I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.