She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess.

He honestly expected her to believe that she could make a bad offering and her ancestors wouldn't mind.

[i]We were fighting so very hard and achieving so very little aside from staying alive. BUT THAT’S EVERYTHING, my father wrote to me, when I told him that in a letter.[/i]

I would like to have nothing to do with you for hours on end and then come back and find you, come back with things I’ve thought and found all on my own— on my own, not through you.

… there’s a difference between having no one because you’ve chosen it and having no one because everyone has been taken away.

So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

Three things happened in 1945. Daddy went missing, Annie started wetting the bed, and the Lester girl sang about Hitler in the middle of Sunday service.

I think all those rules are boring. About what people can and can't wear. Surely everyone should be able to wear whatever they like?

You know, ISIS, their [Vatican] primary trophy. Very few people know this. Nobody even believed it.

December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy.

I'm not a control freak - I'm a control enthusiast.

You can communicate to a new cybercity... This will be the ideal home server. Did you see the movie The Matrix? Same interface. Same concept. Starting from next year, you can jack into The Matrix!

God has His own way of choosing His instruments.

I think it's very rare, as an actor, that you get to a script, or an idea of a script, and you go, "Oh, I just have to do that!" It fell into place very quickly.

When nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins.