We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

War is what happens when language fails.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

I don't think limits.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

I understand reversal of fortune; that usually has come through my own hand, but you know, you live life on life's terms.

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

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

Nobody needs to prove to anybody what they're worthy of, just the person that they look at in the mirror. That's the only person you need to answer to.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.