Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.

The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.

I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.

Only the nonreader fears books.

We write by the light of every story we have ever read.

Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.

If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.

Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.

This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple.

When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.

I look at you, and I think about you, and ... I don't know. No one has ever confounded me the way you do.

If you removed all the arteries, veins, & capillaries from a person’s body, and tied them end-to-end…the person will die.

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

It is vital that we are equipped with the humility to understand that changing the world and keeping innovation alive require that we change ourselves.

An undutiful Daughter will prove an unmanageable Wife.

The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.

The days of the Cross are counted. We must deliver the German nation from the pernicious influence of Christianity.

Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of it, too.

Politicians refuse to modernize schools, they cut out midnight basketball, but build all these new jails. First class jails, second class schools. This is zero tolerance.

If courage is acting according to one's conscience despite pain or fear, then strength is the ability to keep conscience awake and in force despite the demands of authorities to do otherwise.