Were you lying?""I never lie, " he said piously. "About what?""The sand, the snake."For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.

Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.

These people make my family look easy to get along with.

If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.

He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit.

No man can choose to serve only himself when he has something to offer his state. No one can put his own wishes above the needs of so many.

I am not sure I trust you.""You can trust me with your life, My King.""But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back.

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

See the mice in their million hordes From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads.

A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.

I am in love with Counting Crows. It is so manly and American.

The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living.

One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.

As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.

It’s easy to want peace and love in hypothetical situations—then reality sets in, and sometimes we have to do what’s ugly.

The tide has changed. You have to be able to improvise in today's NFL.

Truth happens to an idea