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.

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.

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.

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

People die from lack of shared empathy and affinity. By establishing social connectedness, we give hope a chance and the other can become heaven. ( "Le ciel c'est l'autre" )

When its no longer just about you and the sake of succeeding just to succeed, you will see miracles happen!

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

I definitely have guys that I'm friends with that I have a crush on, and you don't want to ruin the friendship.

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?

Learn to share your love with others, but keep part of this love for yourself

Only love can keep anyone alive.

This is the potential start of something...awareness

Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Your knees are a southern breeze.