When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.

Photography must be integrated with the story.

The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

The love I knew was from books..

The blind cannot see, but nothing escapes him. The others can see but them eludes the things the blind can see.

Loyalty is smart with patience.

Both were military. That was clear.Reacher could tell by their haircuts. No civilian barber would be as pragmatic or as brutal.

Guys, I don't want to tell you half-truths, unless they're completely accurate.

All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome.

Life should be continually brighter. We are continually seeking our own innocence. We want to recapture it for eternity. It's in there, but we lose touch with it.

Failure is not an option!

I went to school with a kid who was so smart, the only time he got an answer wrong, they had to go back and change the question.

You start like a white blanket and you have to preserve that, and each year that you live chips away at your essential value.