The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.

...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.

The two hardest things to contemplate in life ... are failure and age; those are one and the same.

Two people who think they're in love can find out, when left alone, exactly how little they know about each other.

Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world's ages.

The only things people can ever know about you are the ones that you let them see

Never invest yourself in anything so deeply that its failure could cost you your happiness.

...a good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask--but a great friend does it without being asked at all.

The Culture gives us so much, but in fact it’s only taking things away from us, lobotimizings everybody in it, taking away their choices, their potential for being really good or even slightly bad.

I do what I want. I try to be nice to everybody. When I fail, I try to apologize.

Have you ever Googled yourself? I did, most depressing thing ever. People have websites hoping I die at 38.

I've got my wife. I've got my four kids. I've got parents, grandparents still, and three really good friends. It's all you need. I'd rather have three really good friends than 20 good friends.

The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.

First of all, I was a wrestling fan when I was young. Even when I figured out what wrestling was, I was still a fan.

Imitators? All right! Disciples if you like. But disciples be damned. It's not interesting.

They [Democrats] don't even want us around.

Russia does not want confrontation of any kind. And we will not take part in any kind of 'holy alliance.'

Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space.