No matter how bleak and black her existence became, the familiar sight of the moon restored something within her, small as it was—like tiny fluttering wings of flame beating back the darkness.

It was more real than anything she’d ever imagined, and she clung to that in the same way that the sky clung to the earth.

We all know pain, ’ Nate said. ‘It becomes a part of us… But it doesn't define us.

Be a source of influence to others

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must like men undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters using the voters' own money.

I'm never the kind of person to say what somebody else should do. I'm very much do what you feel to do.

In the consciousness of the end is the limitation of the moment.

In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.

Women need men like fish need bicycles.

**** it, holler them across.

When I became of service to other people I stopped worrying about my weight so much.

The same God who created Rembrandt created you, and you are as precious in God’s sight as Rembrandt or anyone else.