We could tell Americans everything is okay and nothing is going to happen. The fact is, there is a very real threat.

Defeating ISIS. If we do not defeat them abroad, we will be facing more and more of a threat at home. This does not require an occupation or an enduring ground operation.

Let your experience be not one of failure but one that has taught you new things which you would not have known had you not tried

The call of distinction cannot be heard by the average, neither can the vision of distinction be seen by the eyes of the mediocre.

Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers.

The angel descended when you were least expecting it. Tracy felt something quietly go click in his despairing heart.

Daemon had spoken to Blake earlier in the day

I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.

Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Running is always an exercise in humility.

Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.

I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.