You're like Lady MacBeth without the murder.""Thank you. You have no idea how much of a compliment that is to me.

But she believed there was a thin line between accepting one's fears and giving in to them altogether.

What he feared the most was that all this hiding had made it impossible for him to ever be found again.

If this were an indie movie, we'd start talking about the constellations, " Solomon said, looking up at the stars.

He was an astronaut without a suit, but he was still breathing.

As smart as I am, it took a boy stuck in his house to teach me that sometimes it doesn't matter where you are at all. It only matters whos with you.

She believed in herself maybe more than other people believed in God or the devil or Heaven or Hell.

And, long after Clark had gone home, Solomon stayed up wondering if everyone falls in love with someone who can't love them back.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. a burn for a burn. a life for a life. that's how all this got started. and that's how it's going to end.

[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

Success is sequential, not simultaneous

Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure . . . true kindness.

I am sure of this, that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would be not half the disorders in the world there are now. It would be a famous good thing for us all.

I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.

Overdressing is the first cousin of trying too hard.

We need to discuss the basis of a new form of trust built on a meaningful form of citizenship appropriate for a republic.

We may be joined these days more by the questions we have in common than by the answers we share.

The Democratic Party is not the party of reform.