For the sun to shine, you gotta have some rain. You need the damn rain.

I have to hurt other people in order to get what I want, I don’t have a choice but to. In life, you gotta do the right things for the wrong reasons. Or the wrong things for the right reasons.

In life, you got two objectives. Make money and make a change.

I'd rather try and fail than quit and not do shit.

All my life I wanted to be accepted.

The pen is my true salvation. God is not.

I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.

When you see something wrong and fail to do anything about it, even in the smallest effort, you accept the wrong.

We must pray for more prayer for it is the world's mightiest healing force.

Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity.

The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.

In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.

She surveyed the carnage behind him. "Did you have fun?" He showed her his teeth. "Yes.

A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar in sight.

Our nation is rich and our people can be rich. 2014 elections is a fight against poverty.

What are you boys doing?” she asks, as if we’re still little kids messing around. “Arguin’,” Carlos says matter-of-factly.