Comfort...was the key ingredient to making the prisoner crave the prison.

The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.

Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!

Elegance is the perfect disguise for our violent nature—a mask so convincing that we often fool ourselves the moment we don it.

With faith, I love without any fear.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is a amazing book, I love it

I'll never leave this Earth without a fight or at least pretend to for all of those in sight.

Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.

Genuine goodness isn't discovered through postponement but must exist now or not at all. It cannot be based on what is not. We must find it in what is and what we truly see.

The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality.

And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story.

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

Living a simpler life has turned out to be one of the keys to being more awake and healthy.

Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.