"Going home must be like going to render an account."

"Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion."

"It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine."

"How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?"

"Leadership is not a title, it is the realization that shadows are only cast by the presence of light."

"The true measure of a man is the simplest acts of love resonate the loudest."

"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."

"I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense I call it intelligence."