…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

There is no shame in failing

There was healing in the tyranny, and tyranny in the healing.

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth the publishing to find honest men to publish it and to get sensible men to read it.

Humility is of central importance I think it's an underappreciated virtue in the contemporary discussion of law and politics.

Nobody ever sees me. Thank you.

Mysticism is an eclectic mixture of various forms of self-discovery that's primarily experimental.

Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.

You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.

In common with many who have a brain injury, I initially lost my confidence and felt very vulnerable, as if a protective layer of skin had been stripped away.

There's stars, superstars, and then there's Bobby Orr.