Even when you’d lost everything you thought there was to lose, somebody came along and gave you something for free.

I told myself that some families we get without asking, while others we choose. And I chose those two. I think that’s what you’d call a silver lining.

I thought about having a proper room, breathing life into it, and nobody minding.

I smiled back and I thoughthow incredible that was, that they would find the time to smile. There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldn’t always see it.

I reinvented myself. I acquired a taste for evil. I found I have a talent for it. And I murdered the old me.

It will be the kiss by which all others in your life will be judged... and found wanting.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

We all have a dinosaur deep within us just trying to get out.

My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.

Ricky had taught me a few cuss words. I usually practiced them in the woods by the river, then prayed for forgiveness as soon as I was done.

Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due.

The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us.

Finally, in 1954 [Ho Chi Minh] agreed to the Geneva Agreement, which divided the country temporarily into two zones, in the hope that national elections might unify the country under his leadership.