It must be great to spend time in a spot and if you walk away, it’s so much better than before because of something you did.

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.

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.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

A sense of the value of time ... is an essential preliminary to efficient work it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down.

Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged.

The needs of mankind are universal. Our means of meeting them create the richness and diversity of the planet. The Montessori child should come to relish the texture of that diversity.

Words can be used as a bomb or balm.

I'm going to move to Theory someday. Everything works there.

A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.

Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn't be revealed through its fruit.

If you want to change a mind, there's no better way than a dialogue over coffee.