Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.

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.

I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.

It is the unknown that we thirst for. Curiosity that drives us... to learn. Not to hear, or to be told. But to see and feel, to experience.

There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.

I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems to me rule of mob law.

Here's a riddle: When is a croquet mallet like a billy club? I'll tell you: Whenever you want it to be!

Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.

Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today.

I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to play. I appreciate that.

It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust.