Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness.

What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.

The true beauty of a woman is her inherent ability to make better a man in every way.

Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal

Death may indeed be final but the love we share while living is eternal

This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions

The gifts of an honorable, well-lived life are in those who will miss you once you're gone.

A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isnt.

God, despite his casual silence, still exists. Of that I haven't a single doubt.

The greatest threat to freedom, as well as the most formidable enemy of it, is a supported cause against it.

Hate grows and victors where love is afraid to share its bloom.

May you have the courage, confidence and commitment to achieve your goals.

Ink is the great cure for all human ills.

I love the old movies from my past, when I was growing up. I just have a special place in my heart for them. They kind of feel like comfort food to me, so watching them is just cozy and warm.

His eyes were still like caves with ghosts dwelling in their depths.

Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued into our heads with stories.

He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him.

You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.

Because it's our choices that makes us who we are.

[I talk politics with Ted Turner] quite often. Usually with a great deal of excitement, because he has one political view and I have another. Despite our politics,we've agreed to be friends.

The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.