With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Reject sin, seek righteousness.

June Cleaver didn't keep her house in perfect order, the prop man did it.

I think teams win. I don't think offense wins. I don't think defense wins. I don't think special teams - teams win.

When I ran across America, for 75 days I ate 10,000 calories a day. I still lost about five pounds.

We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge.

That tag - underwear model - I just can't get rid of it. And it's such a bizarre, specific thing - underwear. It's like I never modelled clothes.

I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.

In the midst of life we are in death, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection.

No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude.

I read Carver. Julio Cortázar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.