Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.

I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

It was the dawn of the third age of mankind.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous.

If sacred places are spared the ravages of war... then make all places sacred. And if the holy people are to be kept harmless from war... then make all people holy.

All love is unrequited. All of it.

I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

Wouldn't it be much worse if life really were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?

Bran and I are two loose ends who found a way to tie ourselves together.

I just want people to know you can get through stuff. I hope people can see that in what my life has been and where it is going.

The poorer we are inwardly, the more we try to enrich ourselves outwardly.

Karma has always existed, as have you, I, and all things in this wonderful universe.

The grave is a crucible where memory is purified; we only remember a dead friend by those qualities which make him regretted.

Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!

A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer's judgment.

Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make

At a certain point, to remain slightly tangential to wherever I was became a way of 'being Tony': by not being anything that everyone else was.