It takes courage to live in the midst of hate. And it requires strength to keep that hatred from eating your soul.

You can't be a victim and heal.

When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool.

In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.

I love the Arctic Monkeys . Who doesn't? I'd love to see them live, but haven't got round to it yet. I never get to see bands because I'm never in the same town for more than two seconds.

When you love what you do, you're happy just doing it.

I like a book to be full of the memory of what it is, a voice in an endless conversation, and yet at the same time to be new.

Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.

I'm a graduate of Princeton, and I just want to say you don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be on the Supreme Court.

You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.