But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

-- that books were mirrors, reflective in sometimes unpredictable ways.

I needed her to stop. Needed not to hear the pain in her voice--to see the way she was twisting the pocketbook strap. If she kept talking, she might break down and tell me everything.

If I could just write it down in a piece of paper, then maybe she could get a decent night's sleep, eat a little of her dinner. Maybe she could have a minute's worth of peace.

Even if you cover the whole world with darkness, you can never stop the sun from rising.

You are mine, and I am thine, and no power on earth shall make it otherwise.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

Once evolution gets a good basic design, it tends to throw away the variants and concentrate on the near-infinite diversity within that design.

To be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind.

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks just as well, if not better, than the average Wall Street expert.

Life isn’t fair. It never will be. Quit trying to make it fair. You don’t need it to be fair. Go make life unfair to your advantages.

To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.

You're not supposed to be accepting trophies. You're supposed to be in the back being mad that people are getting trophies.