Patroclus, ' he said. He was always better with words than I.

He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.

In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.

When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.

And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.

But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?

She wants you to be a god, " I told him."I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened. It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents, everywhere.

For who can be ashamed to lose to such beauty?

Wealth and reputation were the things our people had always killed for.

There is no honour in betraying your friends.

This and this and this.

Are you willing to walk with God?

Some people are in misery of carrying the entire world’s pain on their shoulders. They are called writers.

Luck is the residue of design.

When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.

I will continue modeling until they don't want me anymore basically because I do love it very much.

I believe in winning. It is clean. I like it. I definitely don't believe in losing. It is a bad attitude. It is not necessary to lose, but it does happen once in a while.

I shall claim full amends for every fall and stubbed toe, if you do not lead us well.

The people who truly know me know what I'm like. There have been people who try to say things that aren't fair, and I check them. And then they don't like me because I checked them.

I'm not for raising taxes on anyone - period.

Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I share with them to do.