Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.

Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans

In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think youcontrol it.

You don't even know where I'm going.""I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.

What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless.

...people don’t take trips—trips take people.

Literature for me was a magnificent destiny for which I was not yet fully prepared. 76

The truth should not be contingent, but it should be coherent.

Strategy has no value if your culture and leadership mindset are wrong

After all, I was dressed in linen and so retained a certain capacity for nonchalance.

My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.

Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.

You can have the platinum album, but when you still feel like you haven't quite found your place in the world - it kind of gives a crazy offset.

Think of someone you know who's not saved but you may be afraid to share the Gospel with that person. I've found a way that's radically effective in training people to share the Gospel.

All men are created equal.

I really want to thank Annika Sorenstam. She helped me a lot about my game, about the mentals, and she told me go step by step.