We hold each other's lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.

Favorite books and authors while growing up - I'd need a book to list them all. For the sake of brevity: Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, Victor Hugo, world's mythology, the Arthurian legends. And the unabridged dictionary. And they're still my favorites. They get better each time I read them.

Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.

-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.

Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.

It is harsh enough for each man to bear his own wound. But he who leads bears the wounds of all who follow him.

For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.