Not all sons were like their fathers. A son chose the man he would be.Not all daughters were like their fathers. A daughter monster chose the monster she would be.

Gratitude takes less energy than anger.

Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious.

Things don't ever stay the same. Natural beginnings come to natural or unnatural ends.

There isn't a simple person anywhere in this world.

If her enemies were Brigan's friends and her friends were Brigan's enemies, then the two of them could walk through the world arm in arm and never be hit by arrows again.

There will be no yelling at people who are bleeding themselves to unconsciousness.

You're the queen, and it's the queen's house, and whatever Brigan may accomplish, he's highly unlikely ever to be queen.

And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness.

He thinks we're made of money.

Do you understand? I don't want you to do a thing if you don't understand it.

In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.

You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.

Love was like that, like a dream you didn't quite understand, one in which you didn't necessarily know what you were looking at until it was right in front of you.

I still don't know what the film was about because all I remember is a whole lot of technical dialogue about a body in a suitcase.

I think Democrats are complacent. They think that Russia is going to save us. Bob Mueller is going to come in with a report.

We're gonna stop them [ISIS], we're gonna stop them cold.

Yeah, I know getting high isn't so smart. Ask me if I care.

One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought.

If I knew that the world ends tomorrow, I, even today, plant a tree

To the stars through difficulties.