This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear?

It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall back in.

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.

Surround yourself with people who challenge you, teach you, and push you to be your best.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.