The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.

There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.

Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Very strange people, physicists, " he said as soon as they were outside again. "In my experience the ones who aren't actually dead are in some way very ill.

We are to love God most importantly so that we can grow to love people as he loved us, not so that we can feel more divine and worthy than the worldly.

Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Sometimes our breakthrough begins when we refuse to be impressed with the size of our problem.

The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, / Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed / Ere it gives forth the fragrance you wish to extract.

Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.

If anybody would have told me I'd be making number seven Fast & Furious, I would have said, "You're crazy."

Everything looks better with my eyes closed.

Always work harder than other people are willing to work. Sweat more, endure more pain, and then reap the rewards of success and achievement.