We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

I am a guardian of sorts.”- Liam (Marked Book #1) page 171

Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences

Is she a good baby? People would ask me. Well, no, I'd say.That swirl of hair on the back of her head. We must have taken a thousand pictures of it.

Hey Audrey, I am watching you de-clutter your house, do you need help?

I'm introverted by nature, and I need to have some things of my own.

You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you.

Nabokov quote: "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child."

If you think you can - you can!

The poets continually and sometimes wilfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer.

I'm intrigued and drawn to people who know exactly who they are, who know what they want, who live life on their own terms.