You know and I know that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too early. We cannot be free until they are free.

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

But that woman is an encyclopedia!Of all vices, ancient and modern, and terribly interesting to leaf through!

What happened to you could have been worse - it could have happened to me.

I wouldn't even know - and I spent three years in the CIA - I wouldn't even know how you'd start a covert action program in a place like Iran. It would be extraordinarily difficult.

If you're having trouble, it's because you just don't know how - yet!

Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars. Guess what? Yes we do.

she hurriedly wipes her eyes so that he can see the girl he wishes.

The most visible joy can only reveal itself to us when we've transformed it, within.

Carry on! Carry on! Fight the good fight and true; Believe in you mission, greet life with a cheer.

I'm afraid I'll lose myself in you, Gideon. I'm scared I'll lose the part of me I worked so hard to get back." "I'd never let that happen." he promised fiercely. Chapter 8, pg 140

I am declined Into the vale of years.