“When you own nothing, it’s hard to believe you have anything to lose.”

“How easily we abandon those who have suffered the same persecutions as we have. How quickly we grow impatient with their inability to transcend the conditions of our lives. ”

“When you can't be sure of anything else in this crapped- on world, you have to be sure of yourself.”

“Oh, my daughter,at times you have to fight, but preferably not with your fists.”

“Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.”

“No one would believe me but at times I would choose wartime in Saigon over peacetime in Alabama."-Inside Out and Back Again”

“We’ve always assumed The Aegis is all-knowing highly trained and organized but it’s nothing but a cult, isn’t it ? The weak and uneducated being led by those with their own agendas. Brainwashed lemmings following orders without question.”