Feelings don’t follow rules. Guilt does. Fear does. But attraction? No way.

The more kindness and justice are challenged, the more we must embrace them. Only when you are challenged - and only when you challenge yourself - do you discover what truly matters.

It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.

It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together.

Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.

The good old days needed a lot of improvement. People aren't the only things that get better with age.

And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic nor popular - but one must take it because it is right.

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

Neither every rich person is noble nor miser.Neither every poor person is humble nor wicked.

Influence is having people follow you because of what you represent,

While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster

Possessions, for the terminally frightened, bring peace of mind.

I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean them as much as the other ones.

The fog lifted in the evening and a blue-black band at the horizon marked the end of the sea and the beginning of thought. Where does a beginning begin when nothing has gone on before?

A nation without borders is no nation at all.

Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates.

Love is the greatest corrupter ever known and has been the numbers one downfall of mankind since the first creation.