"Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death."

"That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world."

"Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms."

"What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?"

"The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world."

"Wisdom principle 73 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 100."

"We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism."

"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow."