This isn't just 'the way things are.' This is the way you made them. This is the result of your choices, your actions. Yours.

No one starts out with the answers. You figure them out as you go and you learn from the people who figured them out before you.

If you're not at least willing to die for something- something that really matters- in the end, you die for nothing.

If someone from the government tries to put his hands on your money... run away as fast as you can and tell the nearest conservative.

You know what it's like," said Storm, "when you want to--just--pour a woman into a glass and--just-drink her--just drink her down, one gulp, body and soul?

Good things might happen in your life or bad things might happen, sometimes terrible things, but no matter what happens, your soul is your own. And no one and nothing can stop you.

Do right. Fear Nothing.

The trouble with straw men is it only takes a single match to set them ablaze.

They'd put the anesthesia mask on him, and the next instant he was in the recovery room. It was a blackout so complete, it made him doubt the immortality of the soul.

You know what it's like, " said Storm, "when you want to--just--pour a woman into a glass and--just-drink her--just drink her down, one gulp, body and soul?

Anyway, God is not susceptible to proofs and disproofs. If you believe, the evidence is all around you. If you don’t believe, no evidence can be enough.

He didn’t deserve compassion. Sympathy. Not even understanding. He deserved worse, far worse than he had ever been given.

The bonds of family bind us up, support us, help us. And they are also a bond from which it is difficult, perhaps impossible to extricate oneself.

Life is not for the faint hearted

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.

Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

When fans love something, they care for it, and that's the hugest success that you can have, as a storyteller.

I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the domestic arts is frequently enslaved by them.

There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency.

I believe myself that there's a great deal more interest and engagement among Americans than our politicians recognize.