The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.