Life is many things, but if you don't try to control it, it will take hold of you and ruin you.

So that's little Scorpious. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank god you've inherited your mother's brains.

Formal education opens the world to you

Wealth seldom fails to breed the fear of poverty.

Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.

Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris

I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible--- not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance: trying to connect.

I have traveled to all the continents except for one, and I know what is going on out there... The world is rapidly becoming Ahmadinejadized.

It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.

Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.