How a kidnapping ends depends to a large degree on who the kidnappers are.

One thing is clear: My life is completely different than it was before the kidnapping.

I beg you, put an end to the occupation. I beg the Italian government and the Italian people to put pressure on the government to pull out.

I was set free because the negotiations were successful, because there were people lobbying for my freedom, and because hundreds of thousands took to the streets in Rome for my freedom.

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.

I'm taking my time trying to transition because the Aaron Carter you saw back then - now [I'm] a completely different person.

Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary.

But successful investors tend to be not too self-destructive. They tend to be patient, they tend not to follow the crowd, and they tend not to be too guilty about winning.

Any American strike will not destroy as much as the terrorists have already destroyed in Syria ; sometimes the repercussions could be many doubles the strike itself.

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.

Samadhi is perfect absorption to the point where there is no sense of being absorbed, not the consciousness of knowing that you are having an experience.

And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.

Life is lived only once. And the less seriously the better.