Family is never really gone.

It’s all in my mind.I’m in my right mind now, and my right mind is crazy."You need to wake up, Ella."The words are a command I cannot obey.

And this is what she wants to do to people. Let them have their own lives, until she wants them. Give them the strength of giants, but not the power to control it.

As soon as I say the words, I know they were the right ones. My eyes dip down to Dad’s memorial plaque. Truth doesn’t lie in the heart of fortune… it’s under Triumph Towers, where the labs are.

And I try to remember if this happened before, because this is a memory I would want to keep.But there is no echo of it in my mind.

We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away our selves.

It was to apologize, and apologizing means he remembers what happened, and that means being trapped in a nightmare that’s already come true.

I have no emotions. I just stand there, in the rubble of my life.This… this was my home. If it were a person, this would be a gaping chest wound, the kind no one can recover from.

I have emotions, ” I whisper. I am nothing but a black hole of emotions.

I cannot imagine a more perfect hell than being trapped inside my own mind.

If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?

The main condition for our success is undoubtedly for us to abide in God

Perhaps she would learn in time to permit both her daughter and her gods to govern their own affairs.

Hope is the opiate of the frail.

When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon I cried

I'm trying to be myself more and more. The more confidence you have in yourself... the more you realize that this is you, and life isn't long. So get on with it!

I would think that would be really liberating to play like a real cad or a villain or something like that, and that's something I haven't gotten the chance to do a lot.

To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won’t be afraid of death because you’re experiencing the first tastes and promises of heaven in this world.

Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now.

And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own.

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.