As for what you're calling hard luck - well, we made New England out of it. That and codfish.

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost, Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways...

Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth.

Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

he placed his hands on my mind before reaching for my waist my hips or my lips

He comes where He commands us to leave.

The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed.

Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.

A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.

Jack Reacher is a brilliant movie

Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of illusions.

He's probably the hardest-working guy I've been around who has great ability. Overachievers work hard because they have to. Peyton has rare talent, but chooses to push himself like he doesn't.