Gifford Ulrich didn’t know the distance from despair to hope, but he knew hope didn’t sleep in alleys.

Everybody dies. It’s no risk to lose your life. You knew it was lost from the beginning.

It remains for you to save one before saving others, to lead one before leading others.

Reading had always been, through bad, boring, or better times, his best connection to humans.

If all you do is think about what you need, you’re no better than an animal in the woods, and no smarter either. To be human, you’ve got to want. It makes you smarter and stronger.

Devotion to self is necessary. First, place the mask on yourself and breathe deeply. Then help the others. If you don’t save yourself, they will die.

Some people get what they want because they grab the power and swing it, and some people don’t.

Politics is all about dividing up the power. Washington D.C. likes to talk about spreading the wealth, but never spreading the power.

Being tough today might cause you to be weak in the future.

I am not wise enough to know if there is ever purpose in tragedy, if there is ever virtue in resisting it. If it cannot be overcome, then grief has beaten you, and you are right to say so.

Evil won’t leave you alone until you take a stand or until you’re dead.

The most important things are the hardest things to say, because words diminish them...

Your imagination s a wonderland full of realities.

The word of God gives us strength, power and hope.

In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had to be a boffin with degrees in maths and physics, which were my weakest subjects.

As americans I think it's harder for us to have a relationship with opera because the access to it is so limited.

I shop at a computer store called 'Your Crap's Already Obsolete'.

What is easy to do is also easy not to do.

I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.

Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.

you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life