Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito

I hadn’t been paying much attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn’t really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.

New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.

Horses are a mirror of who you are. They're emotionally dependent on you.

What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive.

I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all.

It was good work, the kind of work that let you sleep soundly at night and, when you awoke, look forward to the day.