“Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every e...” — Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote

“Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.”

“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”

“Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.”

“All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.”

“With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.”

“The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.”

“A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.”

“Adventures are to the adventurous.”

“I always told myself I was more than a football player, so every off season, I pushed myself to go outside the box and get a little bit better off the field. I dabbled in many business adventures to gain more real world experience.”

“'Jurassic Park' movies don't fit into a specific genre. They're sci-fi adventures that also have to be funny, emotional, and scary as hell. That takes a lot of construction, but it can't feel designed.”

“I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world, have some adventures and then write about them.”

“I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book.”