Sometimes a friendship is more like a war.

Her chest feels very tight, as if she's suddenly full of poison. You have to keep it all inside. Like throwing yourself on a bomb to save everyone else. Except you're the bomb.

What are you doing extra? That's what counts. That's when you're working hard - when you're going above and over what's expected of you" (102). - Tony Gonzalez, "The Giant Within

Initially, the truth may hurt, but lies hurt always.

Those things that take my breath away become the ocean-complex and deep-and I'm prone to drowning in beautiful things. Like you.

Each of us bears his own Hell.

I state for the record that I have never sought funds from any POW family, nor led them to believe in any way that we were going on a mission to rescue their specific missing loved one.

We're going to make great trade deals.

Exercise: you don't have time not to

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

Revolution is not something outside of us, but inside us, begging for our engagement every single day.