“That it ought to be known I was born this way,With indiscriminate tendencies.”

“Simon sighed. "People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but It's the way you live your life that matters.”

“There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.”

“Leaders do what ought to be done whether their deeds are known by thousands or known by no one.”

“..."readers were born free and ought to remain free.”

“People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but it's the way you live your life that matters. And the people you know. Valentine was Hodge's friend, and I don't think Hodge really had anyone else in his life to challenge him or make him be a better person. If I'd had that life, I don't know how I would have turned out. But I didn't. I have my family. And I have you.”