Fear was the hand of the devil holding a scalding hot branding iron and touching your brain and your stomach and yelling at you to run with leaden feet.

Everybody dies. It’s no risk to lose your life. You knew it was lost from the beginning.

It remains for you to save one before saving others, to lead one before leading others.

Reading had always been, through bad, boring, or better times, his best connection to humans.

If all you do is think about what you need, you’re no better than an animal in the woods, and no smarter either. To be human, you’ve got to want. It makes you smarter and stronger.

Devotion to self is necessary. First, place the mask on yourself and breathe deeply. Then help the others. If you don’t save yourself, they will die.

Some people get what they want because they grab the power and swing it, and some people don’t.

Politics is all about dividing up the power. Washington D.C. likes to talk about spreading the wealth, but never spreading the power.

Being tough today might cause you to be weak in the future.

I am not wise enough to know if there is ever purpose in tragedy, if there is ever virtue in resisting it. If it cannot be overcome, then grief has beaten you, and you are right to say so.

Evil won’t leave you alone until you take a stand or until you’re dead.

Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart.

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

There is a source of power in each of us that we don't realize until we take responsibility.

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.

All these words are just a front. What I would really like to do is chain you to my body, then sing for days & days & days.

What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.

You can change your life, and you can heal yourself.

If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.

God is living in New York, and he's a Mets fan.