Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.

It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?

I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.

Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.

Love is random; fear is inevitable.

Maybe we're the fools, for thinking we know things. Maybe humans are the only ones who can deal with the fact that nothing can ever be known at all.

America is an empire that does not wish to be one ; we are easily discouraged from doing what must be done to maintain the global order that allows democracy and prosperity to flourish.