“(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.”

“Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can't know, and so days of death and fire so often begin no differently than those of love and warmth.”

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

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

“The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read”

“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?”

“Remember, for every shot you fire, someone, somewhere, is making money.”