Reading had always been, through bad, boring, or better times, his best connection to humans.

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.

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.

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

Do not pursue what you cannot keep.

Turn your pride into love in order to fill your life with joy.

I got mixed up with some oddness in my youth, and the long and short of it is that I can't shuffle off this mortal coil until I have read the ten most boring classics.

I’ve said before, Harry, no need to hide your light, ” said Alice, squeezing his hand. She giggled, “Dance, monkey, dance.

I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.'

The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions.

It is only when your awareness reaches the heart that great progress from your practice is possible.

I often have discussions with people who demand pluralism and much more. One can discuss these issues, but only within the framework of the law.

Oh sons of Arabs and the Arab Gulf, rebel against the foreigner...Take revenge for your dignity, holy places, security, interests and exalted values.

The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.