The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself. Anger is.

He says I'm beautiful as a red tomato

Wouldn't it be strange, she thought, to have a blue sky? But she liked the way it looked. It would be beautiful - a blue sky.

What was the power that turned the worm into a moth? It was greater than any power the Builders had had, he was sure of that. The power that ran the city of Ember was feeble by comparison...

There is a great difference between enlightenment and education. The former is a discerned vital knowledge without guidance while the latter is imparting any knowledge.

I left England when I was four because I found out I could never be King.

Kindness is no common virtue. It is a rare gift.

The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.

UCLA acknowledged this shift by bringing in Alex Haley (the co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X) and Eldridge Cleaver (Soul on Ice) as speakers.

I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.

The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.

We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark.

Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.

The more dependent you are, the more ignorant you must be, and that's how they want you.