A person gets built and stands for a few years and then nature’s demolition team comes in.

Everybody dies. It’s no risk to lose your life. You knew it was lost from the beginning.

It remains for you to save one before saving others, to lead one before leading others.

Reading had always been, through bad, boring, or better times, his best connection to humans.

If all you do is think about what you need, you’re no better than an animal in the woods, and no smarter either. To be human, you’ve got to want. It makes you smarter and stronger.

Devotion to self is necessary. First, place the mask on yourself and breathe deeply. Then help the others. If you don’t save yourself, they will die.

Some people get what they want because they grab the power and swing it, and some people don’t.

Politics is all about dividing up the power. Washington D.C. likes to talk about spreading the wealth, but never spreading the power.

Being tough today might cause you to be weak in the future.

I am not wise enough to know if there is ever purpose in tragedy, if there is ever virtue in resisting it. If it cannot be overcome, then grief has beaten you, and you are right to say so.

Evil won’t leave you alone until you take a stand or until you’re dead.

I try to make my comments like a woman's skirt: long enough to be respectable and short enough to be interesting.

Complements from your companion will do you no good, but if you get complements from your competitors it means you are really doing good.

I remember the fire, it burns bright, always around me. I close my eyes, and tears stream out. The tides of the past seize me, bear me out to sea.

There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.

People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.

If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008.

I realized that the studios didn't really understand their own system.

Originality is only variation.

I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.

Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it.