There are old swordsmen and bold swordsmen. But few old, bold swordsmen.

The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.

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I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.

I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.

There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.

Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.

To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.

There are athletes and celebrities that are out there and they Twitter and they constantly try to drum up press because they're narcissists.

It's important to recognize that we in Europe will either succeed together or fail together.

I'll always touch you.

If you don't raise the bar, how will you ever know your potential?

People like B.B. King told me I was a 'star' and told me I was 'the future of blues' - and Buddy Guy, too, ... They told me, 'You're it, son; go on out there.

It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

We're not savages. We're English.