Everyone needed an obsession.

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

You live it forward, but understand it backward.

To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

Geography is destiny.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.

Being the first born gives you great patience.

When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

It is pointless waiting for the moment because you are already in the moment so just get started!

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

Happiness for me is the people whom you love, love you back.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

We're not sure that if there's chemical weapon used and who used it. We can't talk about virtual things, we have to talk about facts.

In family relationships love is really spelled t-i-m-e, time.

I have great respect for the news and great respect for freedom of the press and all of that.

I'm happy to be working with all women.

Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine.

Beautiful isles! beneath the sunset skies tall, silver-shafted palm-trees rise, between full orange-trees that shade the living colonade.