Our memories are like a city: we tear some structures down, and we use the rubble of the old to raise up the new ones.

Because this is Beth's fight, and that's what fathers do for their little girls, ' he said.

I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

Meditation' an exercise to keep positive things in mind by getting rid of the negatives

The deception of others is almost always rooted in the deception of ourselves.

I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie.

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.

Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.

Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.