Politics is all about dividing up the power. Washington D.C. likes to talk about spreading the wealth, but never spreading the power.

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.

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.

Evil stinks and it doesn’t disappear just because you want it to. You can still smell it with your eyes closed.

If your students aren't learning, then maybe you're not teaching.

I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to Heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.

Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

The logic for me, in writing it is that the different areas or different years are almost like different rooms.

I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

Gareth Jellyman has just been dismissed, I think he's thrown a wobbler

There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par.

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.

A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the modern world.

Capital goes where it is welcome and stays where it is well treated.