I am thinking by what long discipline and at what cost a man learns to speak simply at last.

The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.

The silence rings—it is musical & thrills me. A night in which the silence was audible—I hear the unspeakable.

Silence is the communing of a conscious soul with itself.

It is a very remarkable and significant fact that though no man is quite well or healthy yet every one believes practically that health is the rule & disease the exception.

If we would aim at perfection in any thing, simplicity must not be overlooked.

No one has direct access to your mind like you do. That's why introspection remains a valid technique even after the invention of brain scanners.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Fear is a place where you just tell the truth

When people really understand it's do or die [and] if we work hard and pull through, it's going to be a great outcome; people will give it everything they've got.

firestar: jayfeather what does mallow look like? jayfeather: i dont know, ive never seen any

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

how much of the fun of parenthood lay in watching the children remake, with delighted wonder, one's own discoveries.

You can't prevent a possible future closeness between your upcoming child and one or more of their grandparents.

You know, I started out really hot out of the box. Then I've definitely had and up-and-down career. And when things started cooling off again, it frustrated me.

When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.