But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.

My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.

The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.

But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?

When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.

But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?

The only monsters I have ever known were men.

If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?

If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.

From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were - I have not seenAs others saw - I could not bringMy passions from a common spring -

A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.

Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.

There's never been a presidency that's done so much in such a short period of time, and we haven't even started the big work yet.

How many times has He delivered me! Yet, alas! How distrustful and ungrateful is my heart even until the present!

Vehemently denying something always implies guilt.

Intelligence is predatory, but full of fastidiousness and frights.

It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests.

No one enjoys being away from friends and family.

If you're afraid of failing you won't get very far