A really well-done first draft of a book bares your soul. The purpose of revision is so that everyone who reads the published version believes you were writing about theirs.

Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages.

If you really want to do something, no one can stop you. But if you really don’t want to do something, no one can help you

Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity.

Sometimes a catastrophe is simply a course correction.

If everything in the past has value, then there’s no reason for regret, ever.

I'm a conundrum. Or an enigma. I forget which.

Your ability to shape your destiny is directly proportional to your belief that it is a matter of will and determination--however much or little that belief may be.

If I can't joke about imminent death, then I might as well just resign.

Just because I'm a murdering, thieving, cowardly, traitorous sort doesn't mean I can't do my job properly.

All stories are true. But some of them never happened.

I want to thank you for the profound joy I've had in the in the thought of you.

For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.

Gossipmongers = Toxic Hearts Toxic Hearts = Bigot Souls

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.

Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined.

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.

In America, we will have secure borders, but we'll also have reform.

But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.

We thought, you know, this will just be kind of low-key. And no one will ever know we're here, and we're tucked back in.