We are none of us perfect, and...we learn to take these imperfections and make them only a small part of who we are

Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

Evil must always be fought.

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

The only certainty life contains is death.

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?

Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

Learning how to endure your disappointment and frustration is part of the job o fa creative person...Frustration is not an interruption of your process

I’ll tell you the difference between our countries. Americans think life is serious but not hopeless

The U.S. military is so far behind the rest of our society.

Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.

It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.

Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call power!

Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.

People think [baseball players] make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission