“Nothing is as real as a dream. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.”

“The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.”

“What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.”

“Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.”

“The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.”

“Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.”

“Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they?”