You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.

Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

We all bear scars,... Mine just happen to be more visible than most.

We each survive in our own way.

I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world.

No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.

You could be great. You could rattle the stars. You could do anything if only you dared.

I worry because I care. Gods help me, I know I shouldn't, but I do. So I will always tell you to be careful, because I will always care what happens.

Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse us–to haunt our thoughts long after we've faced them.

Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart.

What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements?

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

I felt I wasn't getting anywhere in England.

It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.

I've been known to just pass out instantaneously, like, anywhere.

The world is his who has money to go over it.

On the surface I'm a mild mannered person, that's until you scratch the animal inside.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.

Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.