Jim C. Hines

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Thinking calls for facts; facts are found by digging; but he who has gathered this wealth is well equipped for life.

I didn’t just come in on a load of turnips!

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

I tell you, if you’re in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you’re back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you’ve got to keep moving.

You are so much more than what people have done to you, and to let that define you, would be a tragedy.

Faith, n.: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

I haven’t put a pencil to a piece of paper, working out a problem, in years; I do it in my head.

Every success is the mother of countless others.

A man always has two reasons for what he does-a good one, and the real one.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.