The impression of strength came from an extraordinary vitality that seemed to pulse in the very air around him

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.

the demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out.

There is no escape if love is not there

She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.

Tis a strange thing, that the only friends I have I found in the same way, lying flat in the meadows, crying as if their hearts would break.

There was something irresistible about popcorn.

From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own.

How right- how incredibly, utterly right- and how impossible!

There is no escape if love is not there," Hannah had said. Had Hannah known when she herself had not even suspected? It was not escape that she had dreamed about, it was love.

All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not going to disappoint her, Kit. When I take you on board the Witch, it's going to be for keeps.

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.

Everybody's the same color with the lights off.

The increase in the assets of the Federal Reserve Banks from 143 Million dollars in 1913 to 45 Billion dollars in 1949 went directly to the private stockholders of the [Federal Reserve] banks.

We must stop being polite and behaved and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority.

Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.

We need to focus on building a military that is second-to-none ... so that we can destroy Islamic terrorism.

An egotist is not a man who thinks too much of himself; he is a man who thinks too little of other people.

What's your favorite book? "The last one I read.