Men who have been in war have a different attitude about being wronged.

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.

Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

True character is revealedby the way people react to the bigger challenges in life.

Where I live you're not supposed to shoot a firearm within a quarter mile of a dwelling.

You don't decide you're hip. It just happens that way.

Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.

Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.

Over the last fifteen years, every single person the U.S. has tried to extradite from Sweden has been extradited, and they refuse to provide a guarantee [that won't happen].

...the deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love.

I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.