Too many books. Too few centuries.

The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us.

Beauty you're born with, but brains you earn.

You've got the look of a girl who's no stranger to the page. I can tell. You've got words in your soul.

Your mind will serve you better than any trinket under the suns...It is a weapon...and like any weapon, you need practice to be any good at wielding it.

The brighter the light, the deeper the shadow.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.

We don't really know how the game was invented, though there are suspicions. As soon as we discover the culprits, we'll let you know

She appears to have a face that would stop a clock and raise hell with small watches, bless her heart.

For a moment, my heart aches for him. I should never have asked him to join me here; I should never have asked him to cross.

Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.

Let work itself be the ambition.

I was on the Johnny Carson show, I believe 114 or 104 times. And aside from those times on the air, I never spoke to him. I never met him