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.

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.

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

Evil stinks and it doesn’t disappear just because you want it to. You can still smell it with your eyes closed.

Life's a book filled on pages Just awaiting to be written.Some don't open it for ages, Maybe afraid of being bitten.

If you are brave of heart, sharp of wit, strong of spirit and steadfast of purpose, there is nothing you cannot achieve

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

All the characters on the album are inside me, though none are me. They are sides of me or who I was.

Let our hearts touch far horizons. Let our love know no borders, Draw the Circles wide until, No one stands alone.

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

We don't have to go around as the Protestant reformation did, or as the socialist revolution did, and execute each other as soon as we are successful - assuming we'll ever be successful.

How much longer will you go on letting your energy sleep? How much longer are you going to stay oblivious of the immensity of yourself?