I decided to dub the room with the good chairs my lutery. Or perhaps my performatory. I would need a while to come up with something suitably pretentious.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

To me, that's the wealth of my life: my friends and family and the experience I get to share with them.

We're achieving better marbling and better flavor with old world wisdom that's been passed down for generations but we're still using technology.

In the marriage union, the independence of the husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.

Here words can kill - literally.

If God only used perfect people, He would have no one to use.

I should try to get some sleep as one doesn't know what tomorrow may bring.

Bias and prejudice make me angry...more than anything.

Life catches you by surprise. It always does. But there's good mixed in with the bad. It's there. You just have to recognize it.

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.