George F. Will

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

If I’d known I’d live to be a 100 I’d have taken much better care of myself.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing, but what you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.

Old guys can still do fun things.

You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.

I thought about writing a poem explaining how when you are lost at sea, even if you are rescued and survive, you never really come back. Then I realized everyone that’s ever been in love would already understand.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Like all things vast and beautiful, I want to know the depths of which you exist. It has never been enough to wade in the shallows.

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied – whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.