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

“If you want to kick the tiger in his ass you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth”

“I understand why we do that now. It’s a help, not a threat. It’s something to remind you how important words are. Ideas are important. Principles are important. Words are important. Your word is the most important of all. Your word is who you are.”

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

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

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

“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?”