I wish but to share your gifts as a young boy on his birthday would excitedly rip open his packages to the view of others.

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.

They're the ones inside a soap bubble. Not me.

Total Enlightenment is 'Vision without Purpose'.

Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross Domestic Product. attr to Buthan's King Jigme Singye Wangchuck

How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itself--the task of a lifetime--becomes the answer.

That putt had more breaks than a government job.

It was calling me, that button," he offered as his excuse. "I couldn't resist." -MULCH DIGGUMS ON A HIGHLY PRESS-ABLE BUTTON-

Everyone has dated or been with a person who is obsessed with their work, and it's immensely frustrating. You're like, "I'm right here! I'm a person! I'm interesting, too!"

Nothing brings me more joy than seeing other people's dreams come true.

When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds.

Spirituality really lost its way when it became a stick to beat people with: ‘Do this or you’ll burn in hell.