True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.

Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority.

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

Good habits which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

Though mountains melt and oceans burn, The gifts of love shall still return.

One second she’s all timid, and then reeoowr! Hellcat.

I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

Donald Trump's talking down our democracy. And I, for one, am appalled that somebody who is the nominee of one of our two major parties would take that kind of position.

A person’s tongue can give you the taste of his heart.

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint. - Van Houten

Cancer is cancer. I've got a great life if I can just stay alive.

It's always been my dream to play in the NBA.

Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction.