Sometimes, you have to surrender before you win.

but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.

Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that’s all there is: love and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that’s all we have - to hold on tight until the dawn

You can never tell what people have inside them until you start taking it away, one hope at a time

One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.

Some of the worst wrongs, were caused by people who tried to change things.

There's no such thing as forever.