You? I know you! You trust beyond reason."She met his eyes steadily. "Yes. It's how I get results beyond hope. As you may recall.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.

[Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!"[Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.

You want to be good. All right, I can understand that. But you have to be careful who you let define your good.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you’ll be so close as to be living inside each other’s skins.

everyone has their folding-point, Miles. Their mortal vulnerability. Some just keep it in a nonstandard location.

Let there be love. There will be light to show you the path of life.

The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression.

Gotta stay in the gym, stay funny, stay sharp. I just love working.

I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian.

People love a good mystery; I understand that.

I like looking back at people's faces in the dark. I like noticing details that no one else sees. But I hate it in the old American movies when drivers don't watch the road.

I live in New York and it's the greatest city, but sometimes I want to move to the place with the porch and the lemonade and the farm.

I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.

We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?

Though I am not always responsible for what happens to me, I am responsible for how I handle what happens to me.