I said to myself, 'If you don't sit down to it today, when will you ever sit down to it?'

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

When all else fails, philosophize.

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.

All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice.

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?

I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

To those who will see, the world waits.

Most of us believe everyone has a right to his own opinion - as long as it agrees with ours.

I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.

The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

I couldn't imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for a prime-time drama. I only knew that I wanted the role very much.

If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow.

The indicator of true knowledge is the ability to differentiate what uplifts us from what pulls us down.

To suffer one's confusion is the first step in healing.

I like to say I'm not a Republican or a Democrat, I'm a Christ-o-crat.

I want people to say when No. 9 was out on the field, he did everything humanly possible to win a ballgame.