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

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.

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.

You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.

Faith grows with exercise. You see God work miracles.

We can't really make a living doing comic books, despite the fact that would be an awfully fun way to make a living.

When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.

Bigotry is the sacred disease, and self-conceit tells lies.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth.

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

I'm 100% better with a little bit of controlled chaos. I just know if I have three things to do, or nine things to do, I'm just better at them if I have nine.

It's not willing to settle for anything less than success.

It's not that conservatives don't care. We do. We just have different answers than liberals do. It's a difference of the mind, not of the heart.