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.

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.

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.

Evil stinks and it doesn’t disappear just because you want it to. You can still smell it with your eyes closed.

So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well.

I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.

So, rather than trying to humbly mix with the rest of the world, we are forcing ourselves upon it. We seem to create conflicts with everyone.

Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man.

Success doesn’t always look like what we think it looks like.

The Million Man March would never have been successful if it were not for the women who stood with us and helped to organize to make the March what it eventually became.

It's like a spiritual elevation that occurs when you're playing and becoming one with the instrument or players on the stage.

Philistinism! - We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.

The things I care about are the most pedestrian things in the world. I care about good ice cream and being a good dad and a decent husband.

If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years.