“There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble."(The Mill)”

“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.”

“You don’t have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing.”

“Pittsburgh. I'd been there. One of the most underrated cities in North America. People who'd never been there thought of it as a graveyard of abandoned steel mills, but it was a beautiful city, and it would be good to have it back.”

“A great many people mistake opinions for thought.”

“I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable”