"Where you are is a result of who you were, but where you go depends entirely on who you choose to be."

“If I were a dictator I should make it compulsory for every member of the population between the ages of four and eighty to listen to Mozart for at least a quarter of an hour daily for the coming five years.”

“Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.”

“I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.”

“No one from the intelligence community, anyplace else ever came in and said, ‘What if Saddam is doing all this deception because he actually got rid of the WMD and he doesn't want the Iranians to know?' Now somebody should have asked that question. I should have asked that question. Nobody did. Turns out that was the most important question in terms of the intelligence failure that never got asked.”

“Desperate, yet no longer alone after that day, because we'd found each other.”

“I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.”

“The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.”

“My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.”