If you decide to take somebody on, don’t look behind you, because there won’t be anybody there. You’ll be all alone.

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.

Destiny plays its cards in a way that no one can comprehend.

One thought fixed upon the mind will be better than 50 thoughts flittering across the ear.

Wisdom is the fruits of reflection...

If we took away the ability to put defibrillators in people in their last years, people would be shouting in the streets.

He worked at stealing her heart to replace the one she'd taken from him.

Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles!

Facts themselves do not give knowledge

I never sweat, which you might notice in pictures.

Music for me is very therapeutic, it's very cathartic.

Everything you see in North Korea, it's all propaganda, but it's all connected to the volcano.