Cormac McCarthy

"Nature teaches patience."

"All arts aspire to music."

"Science reveals hidden truths."

"Music transcends all boundaries."

"Faith is the substance of things hoped for."

"Leadership requires vision."

"Work is love made visible."

"You don't have to be afraid of change. You don't have to wonder about what's going to happen as time moves forward into mystery."

"The world is everything that is the case, and in it we find only what we bring to it."

"He knew only that the child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke words."

"In the end we are all just looking for someone to walk beside us in the dark."

"The ugliness of the world is of our own making, and we alone must be responsible for it."

"Things will happen that you will not expect to happen. That's guaranteed. But you cannot let that paralyze you."

"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."

"War is God's way of teaching Americans about geography."

"The world is a hard place. It don't care. It don't care if you're tired."

"There is no order to the universe, only consequence and chaos, and the consequences always fall to the innocent."

"You think when you wake up in the morning it's the same morning? It ain't."

"The working man doesn't control his own destiny, never did."

"Goodness is something chosen. When a man is born, he is free to choose his path. There is no predetermined fate except the one we create for ourselves."

"Most people are not willing to do what it takes. Most people want it easy."

"Memory is not something that you have. Memory is something that has you."

"The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does."

"You can't make something that endures unless you actually have something to say."

"To be alive is to be uncertain. You never know what's coming next."

"Power is a kind of sickness. You have to ask yourself if you're willing to be sick for long enough to get what you want."

"The past is not dead. It's not even past. We are still living it."

"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."

"There is no such thing as life without bloodshed. I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea."

"Beauty is terrifying. It reminds us we are small."