Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

They can do all because they think they can.

As the American public continues to focus more intensely on illegal immigration and securing the nation's borders, the number of members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus continues to grow.

If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.

Fortune sides with he who dares

Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.

Love conquers all things.

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

For they can conquer who believe they can.

Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.

Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.

A wave of saudade swept over me as I realized home never existed at all. The concept of home felt far from my reach, and I felt sick with longing.

We've been talking about this for a good while, the immorality of drones, dropping bombs on innocent people. It's been over 200 children so far. These are war crimes.

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.

It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.

Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.

The real bummer of fame is that at some point you're bound to get demoted.

I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the story to be satisfying. That's the kind of reader I want.