Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you’ll be so close as to be living inside each other’s skins.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.

[Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!"[Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.

You? I know you! You trust beyond reason."She met his eyes steadily. "Yes. It's how I get results beyond hope. As you may recall.

You want to be good. All right, I can understand that. But you have to be careful who you let define your good.

everyone has their folding-point, Miles. Their mortal vulnerability. Some just keep it in a nonstandard location.

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

I've gotten to where my hair is like my onstage prop; I need to hide behind it and throw it around - it's my slo-mo effect.

I was surprised when I started getting old. I always thought it was one of those things that would happen to someone else.

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore.

Money, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man.

I want some time without you organic life forms.

The media believes that what Obama was gonna do when he took over, go dictator immediately, that was what this country needs, finally central government running everything.

You being in my arms, heart by heart feels like our love would never end.

The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.