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 EPISODES BOOKEND QUOTES  "Joseph Conrad said, "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.""

- Jason Gideon "Emerson said, "All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.""

- Jason Gideon "Winston Churchill said, "The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see.""

- Jason Gideon "Nietzsche once said, "When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you.""

- Jason Gideon "Einstein once said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.""

- Jason Gideon "Faulkner once said, "Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.""

- Jason Gideon "Samuel Johnson wrote, "Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.""

- Jason Gideon "French poet Jacques Rigaut said, "Don't forget that I cannot see myself, that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror.""

- Jason Gideon "Rose Kennedy once said, "Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?""

- Jason Gideon "Euripedes said, "When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.""

- Jason Gideon "Euripedes said, "When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.""

- Jason Gideon "Nietzche wrote, "The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather, a condition of it.""

- Jason Gideon "Shakespeare wrote, "Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.""

- Jason Gideon "Doctor Thomas Fuller wrote, "With foxes, we must play the fox.""

- Jason Gideon "Hemmingway wrote, "There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else.""

- Jason Gideon "Carl Jung said, "The healthy man does not torture others. Generally, it is the tortured who turn into torturers.""

- Jason Gideon "Robert Oxton Bolt once wrote, "A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.""

- Jason Gideon "Albert Einstein asked, "The question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or the others crazy?""

- Spencer Reid "Sir Peter Ustinov said, "Unfortunately, a super abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.""

- Jason Gideon "Playwright Eugene Ionescu said, "Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.""

- Jason Gideon "Harriet Beecher Stowe once said, "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid, and deeds left undone.""

- Jason Gideon "The poet W.H. Auden wrote, "Evil is always unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed, and eats at our table.""

- Jason Gideon ""Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done." Elizabeth Barrett Browning."

- Jason Gideon "Roman philosopher Lucretius said, "What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.""

- Jason Gideon "Confucius warned us, "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.""

- Jason Gideon ""Who so sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed." (Genesis 9:6)"

- Jason Gideon "Albert Pine said, "What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.""

- Jason Gideon "Norman Maclean wrote, "It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.""

- Jason Gideon "Abraham Lincoln once said, "In the end, its not the years in your life that count. Its the life in your years.""

- Elle Greenaway "Nietzsche wrote, "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.""

- Aaron Hotchner "W.H Auden said, "Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness.""

- Jason Gideon "Gandhi said, "It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.""

- Jason Gideon "Gandhi also said, "I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.""

- Aaron Hotchner "Diane Arbus once said, "A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.""

- Jason Gideon "Bernard Shaw once said, "An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.""

- Jason Gideon "Anthony Brandt wrote, "Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.""

- Aaron Hotchner "Mexican proverb, "The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman.""

- Aaron Hotchner "The French philosopher Voltaire wrote, "There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.""

- Jason Gideon "The author François de la Rochefoucauld wrote, "We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.""

- Jason Gideon "Albert Einstein said, "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.""

- Jason Gideon "George Orwell said, "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.""

- Jason Gideon "Writer Elbert Hubbard said, "No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.""

- Jason Gideon ""The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind." French writer François de la Rochefoucauld"

- Jason Gideon ""It has been said that time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone." Rose Kennedy"

- Spencer Reid "Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, "The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.""

- Jason Gideon "Mark Twain wrote, "Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.""

- Jason Gideon "Philosopher Kahlil Gibran wrote, "Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.""

- Aaron Hotchner ""Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth." Oscar Wilde"

- Aaron Hotchner ""The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone." Milan Kundera"

- Aaron Hotchner "Helen Keller once said, "Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.""

- Jason Gideon "Plato wrote, "We can easily forgive a child who's afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.""

- Aaron Hotchner "Legendary basketball coach John Wooden said, "It's not so important who starts the game, but who finishes it.""

- Jennifer Jareau ""The ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is given to transcend himself, is to create or destroy, to love or to hate." Erich Fromm"

- Jennifer Jareau "Robespierre wrote, "Crime butchers innocence to secure a prize, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.""

- Jason Gideon "Elbert Hubbard once wrote, "If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.""

- Jason Gideon "Mahatma Gandhi once said, "Remember that all through history there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they seemed invincible. But in the end they always fall. Always.""

- Aaron Hotchner "Dale Turner mused, "Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.""

- Jason Gideon "Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "In order to learn the important lessons in life, one must each day surmount a fear.""

- Jason Gideon "T.S. Eliot wrote, "Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow.""

- Spencer Reid "T.S. Eliot wrote, "Between the desire and the spasm, between the potency and the existence, between the essence and the descent, falls the shadow. This is the way the world ends.""

- Spencer Reid ""All secrets are deep, all secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets." Writer, Cory Doctorow"

- Derek Morgan "Aristotle said, "Evil brings men together.""

- Jason Gideon "Condemned murderer Perry Smith said of his victims, the Clutter family, "I didn't have anything against them, and they never did anything wrong to me, the way other people have all my life. Maybe they're just the ones who have to pay for it.""

- Jason Gideon ""There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins." Ecclesiastes 7:20"

- Aaron Hotchner ""From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate." Socrates"

- Jason Gideon ""From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate." Socrates"

- Spencer Reid ""Our life is made by the death of others." Leonardo da Vinci"

- Jason Gideon ""If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." Thomas Paine"

- Aaron Hotchner "Robert Kennedy once said, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom. Not a guide by which to live.""

- Jason Gideon ""The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul." John Calvin"

- Aaron Hotchner "Gandhi said, "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.""

- Aaron Hotchner "An old Russian proverb reminds us, "There can be no good without evil.""

- Emily Prentiss ""Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Leo Tolstoy"

- Emily Prentiss ""One man's wilderness is another man's theme park." Author unknown"

- Jason Gideon "British historian James Anthony Froude once said, "Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.""

- Emily Prentiss ""Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms made of the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed." Herman Melville"

- Aaron Hotchner ""Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles." Charles Chaplin"

- Aaron Hotchner ""I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, my enemies for their good intellects." Oscar Wilde"

- Jason Gideon "George Washington said, "Let your heart feel for the affliction and distress of everyone.""

- Aaron Hotchner "The Taoist philosopher Lao Tzu once wrote, "He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.""

- Aaron Hotchner "Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.""

- Aaron Hotchner ""In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it's intimate and psychological, resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul." Barbara Ehrenreich"

- Emily Prentiss "Dostoevsky once said, "Nothing is easier than denouncing the evildoer. Nothing more difficult than understanding him.""

- Aaron Hotchner "G.K. Chesterton wrote, "Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.""

- Aaron Hotchner "Erasmus wrote, "What else is the whole life of mortals but a sort of comedy, in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and plays each one his part, until the manager waves them off the stage.""

- Aaron Hotchner ""An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects." Martin Luther"

- David Rossi ""Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters." Francisco Goya"

- Derek Morgan "16th century English novelist Thomas Deloney wrote, "God sends meat and the Devil sends cooks.""

- Derek Morgan "William Shakespeare wrote, "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.""

- Penelope Garcia ""Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities." Author Clive Barker"

- Spencer Reid ""The noir hero is a knight in blood-caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time." Frank Millar"

- Penelope Garcia "The American poet Anne Sexton once wrote, "It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.""

- Aaron Hotchner "Wordsworth wrote, "A simple child, that lightly draws its breath, and feels its life in every limb, what should it know of death?""

- Jennifer Jareau ""No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies." Daisy Bates"

- Aaron Hotchner ""It is a wise father who knows his own child." William Shakespeare"

- Aaron Hotchner ""I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils." Euripides"

- David Rossi ""For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world, and, although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won." Lucille Maud Montgomery"

- David Rossi ""Within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be." Neuroscientist Dr. R. Joseph"

- David Rossi ""There is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." Arthur Rubinstein"

- Aaron Hotchner ""There is no refuge from confession but suicide, and suicide is confession." Daniel Webster"

- David Rossi ""The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love, and to be greater than our suffering." Ben Okri"

- Emily Prentiss ""A sad soul can kill you quicker – far quicker – than a germ." John Steinbeck"

- Spencer Reid ""We cross our bridges when we come to them, and burn them behind us with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke and a presumption that once our eyes watered." Tom Stoppard"

- Spencer Reid ""There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses." George Bernard Shaw"

- Jennifer Jareau ""If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find." John Churton Collins"

- Jennifer Jareau "Author Christian Nestell Bovee once wrote, "No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.""

- Emily Prentiss "Susan B. Anthony said, "A woman must not depend on the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.""

- Jennifer Jareau ""All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another." Anatole France"

- Aaron Hotchner ""What though the radiance that was once so bright, be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.""

- Spencer Reid "Voltaire said, "The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities, is an enthusiast. The man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.""

- Aaron Hotchner ""Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime." Ernest Hemingway"

- Aaron Hotchner ""We all die. The goal isn't to live forever. The goal is to create something that will." Chuck Palahniuk"

- Aaron Hotchner "Wendell Berry said, "The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.""

- Aaron Hotchner ""To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly." Benjamin Franklin"

- Spencer Reid ""Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it." Ayn Rand"

- Emily Prentiss "Thomas Fuller wrote, "A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.""

- Aaron Hotchner "Roman poet Phaedrus wrote, "Things are not always what they seem. The first appearance deceives many. The intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.""

- Aaron Hotchner ""Plenty sits still; hunger is a wanderer." Zulu proverb"

- Emily Prentiss ""Beyond the East the sunrise, beyond the West the sea, and the East and West, the wanderthirst that will not let me be." Gerald Gould"

- Emily Prentiss "Amos Bronson Alcott said, "Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.""

- Aaron Hotchner "Bob Dylan once said, "I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.""

- Spencer Reid ""What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I've found in the son the unveiled secret of the father." Friedrich Nietzsche"

- Spencer Reid ""There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance." Gilbert Parker"

- Spencer Reid ""Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles." Mark Twain"

- David Rossi ""Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love." Martin Luther King, Jr."

- David Rossi "Author Harlan Ellison wrote, "The minute people fall in love, they become liars.""

- Emily Prentiss "P.J. O'Rourke said, "Cleanliness becomes more important when Godliness is unlikely.""

- David Rossi ""We are all brothers under the skin and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it." Ayn Rand"

- Derek Morgan ""For he today who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother." William Shakespeare"

- Derek Morgan ""Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin to slit throats." H. L. Mencken"

- Aaron Hotchner ""There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were." President Dwight Eisenhower"

- David Rossi ""No mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips. Betrayal oozes out of him at every pore." Sigmund Freud"

- Spencer Reid "British historian C. Northcote Parkinsin said, "Delay is the deadliest form of denial.""

- Derek Morgan "Winston Churchill said, "There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues of human society are created, strengthened and maintained.""

- Emily Prentiss "Mario Puzo wrote, "The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.""

- Aaron Hotchner ""... and so all the night tide, I lie down by the side, of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride. In the sepulcher there by the sea, in her tomb by the sounding sea." Edgar Allan Poe"

- Jennifer Jareau ""For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible." Stuart Chase"

- David Rossi ""I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn." Albert Einstein"

- David Rossi "Austrian novelist Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach wrote: "In youth we learn; in age we understand.""

- David Rossi ""The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture." Camille Paglia"

- Aaron Hotchner ""You don't pay a prostitute for sex, you pay her to leave afterwards." Dashiell Hammett"

- Aaron Hotchner "Leonardo da Vinci said, "He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done.""

- Emily Prentiss ""Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity." Roman author Publilius Syrus"

- Aaron Hotchner ""Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny." John Hobbes"

- Aaron Hotchner "Tennessee Williams said, "We all live in a house on fire. No fire department to call, no way out.""

- Aaron Hotchner ""I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love." Françoise Sagan"

- Aaron Hotchner ""Light thinks it travels faster than anything, but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always gotten there first, and is waiting for it." Terry Pratchett"

- Spencer Reid "Stephen King wrote, "Monsters are real, and ghosts are real, too. They live inside us. And sometimes, they win.""

- Spencer Reid "Doctor Berton Grebin once said, "To lose a child is to lose a piece of yourself.""

- David Rossi "Andre Maurois wrote, "Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.""

- David Rossi ""In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present." Francis Bacon"

- Aaron Hotchner ""No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible." George Chakiris"

- Derek Morgan ""I'm not sure about automobiles. With all their speed forward, they may be a step backward in civilization." Booth Tarkington"

- Aaron Hotchner ""The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still, small voice of conscience." Mahatma Gandhi"

- Jennifer Jareau ""It will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and will become boils breaking out with sores on man and beast through all the land of Egypt." Exodus 9:9"

- Spencer Reid ""Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it." Helen Keller"

- Spencer Reid "Flannery O'Connor said, "If there were no Hell, we would be like the animals. No Hell, no dignity.""

- Aaron Hotchner "Karl Kraus said, "A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.""

- David Rossi "Emily Dickinson wrote, "One need not be a chamber to be haunted. One need not be a house. The brain has corridors surpassing material places.""

- Aaron Hotchner ""There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible, as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man." Polybius"

- Aaron Hotchner ""Justice without force is powerless. Force without justice is tyrannical." Blaise Pascal"

- David Rossi ""I have always found that mercy bears richer fruit than strict justice." Abraham Lincoln"

- David Rossi "Kingman Brewster, Jr. said, "There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.""

- Derek Morgan "William Shakespeare wrote, "These violent delights have violent ends.""

- Derek Morgan "Journalist William D. Tammeus wrote, "You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around and why his parents will always wave back.""

- Jennifer Jareau ""And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee." Matthew 5:29"

- Derek Morgan ""Dwell in peace in the home of your own being and the messenger of death will not be able to touch you." Guru Nanak"

- Derek Morgan ""In all the darkest pages of the malign supernatural, there is no more terrible tradition than that of the vampire - a pariah even among demons." Writer Montague Summers"

- Spencer Reid "Writer Cyril Connolly said, "Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self.""

- Emily Prentiss ""Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else, unless it's an enemy." Albert Einstein"

- Derek Morgan ""He who fights with monsters might take care, lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Friedrich Nietzsche"

- Aaron Hotchner "Poet Haniel Long said, "So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.""

- Aaron Hotchner ""Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." Oliver Wendell Holmes"

- Aaron Hotchner ""What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson"

- Aaron Hotchner ""Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure." Tacitus"

- Emily Prentiss "Washington Irving said, "There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and of unspeakable love.""

- Emily Prentiss "Mildred Lisette Norman wrote, "Anything you cannot relinquish, when it has outlived its usefulness, possesses you. And in this materialistic age, a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.""

- Spencer Reid "Isaac Asimov wrote, "In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.""

- Spencer Reid ""Life is a game. Play it. Life is too precious. Do not destroy it." Mother Teresa"

- Jennifer Jareau ""Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn." C.S. Lewis"

- Jennifer Jareau ""If I am what I have, and if I lose what I have, who, then, am I?" German psychologist Erich Fromm"

- David Rossi ""Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive." Sir Walter Scott"

- Emily Prentiss ""Show me a hero, and I will write you a tragedy." F. Scott Fitzgerald"

- David Rossi ""When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when his son gives to his father, both cry." William Shakespeare"

- David Rossi "Nietzsche wrote, "Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.""

- Jennifer Jareau "Emily Dickinson wrote, "Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.""

- Jennifer Jareau "Tennessee Williams said, "We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.""

- Emily Prentiss "Christopher Lasch said, "Family is a haven in a heartless world.""

- Derek Morgan "Mother Teresa said, "I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.""

- Aaron Hotchner ""A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together." Chuck Jones"

- Emily Prentiss ""Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." Helen Keller"

- Aaron Hotchner ""A sincere artist tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing." Painter William Dobell"

- David Rossi "Gandhi said, "I have seen children successfully surmount the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.""

- Aaron Hotchner ""Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theater of the tragedy of man." John Morley"

- Penelope Garcia "Ralph W. Sockman said, "Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength.""

- Penelope Garcia ""The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place." George Bernard Shaw"

- Aaron Hotchner ""The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had." Eric Schmidt"

- David Rossi "Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote, "And out of the darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, molding men.""

- Derek Morgan ""A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden." The Buddha"

- Jennifer Jareau "Jean Racine said, "A tragedy need not have blood and death. It's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.""

- Jennifer Jareau "Marcel Proust wrote, "Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.""

- David Rossi "Mark Twain wrote, "When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not. But my faculties are decaying now... and soon I shall be so I cannot remember anything but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it.""

- David Rossi "Abraham Lincoln said, "Whatever you are, be a good one.""

- Penelope Garcia ""We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing our own skin." Andre Berthiaume"

- Emily Prentiss ""All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul." Mahatma Gandhi"

- Derek Morgan ""But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep." Robert Frost"

- Derek Morgan "Niccolo Machiavelli wrote, "If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.""

- Aaron Hotchner "Thomas Kemp wrote "Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above it's strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful for itself and all things are possible.""

- Aaron Hotchner ""The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need." Napoleon Bonaparte"

- Aaron Hotchner ""Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go." Bernard Malamud"

- Aaron Hotchner ""I believe humanity was born from conflict. Maybe that's why in all of us lives a dark side. Some of us embrace it. Some have no choice. The rest of us fight it. In the end, it's as natural as the air we breathe. At some point, we're forced to face the truth. Ourselves.""

- Penelope Garcia ""Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live." Marilyn Monroe"

- Penelope Garcia "Ralph Ellison said, "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.""

- Derek Morgan "Elise Cabot said, "Evil endures a moment's flush, and then leaves but a burnt out shell.""

- Aaron Hotchner ""When we were children, we used to think when we grew up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable." Writer Madeleine L'Engle"

- Aaron Hotchner ""Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them." Writer Oscar Wilde"

- David Rossi ""There is no such thing as part freedom." Nelson Mandela"

- Derek Morgan ""All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." Galileo"

- Derek Morgan ""No man chooses evil because it is evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks." Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley."

- Spencer Reid ""The best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." Helen Keller"

- Spencer Reid "Friedrich Nietzche wrote, "What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.""

- Emily Prentiss "William Glasser wrote, "What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today.""

- Emily Prentiss ""Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they are in the game." Comedian Paul Rodriguez"

- Derek Morgan ""Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it." Novelist Vladimir Nabokov"

- Emily Prentiss ""It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head." Sally Kempton"

- David Rossi ""There is no chance, no destiny, no fate that can hinder the firm resolve of a determined soul." Ella Wheeler Wilcox"

- Emily Prentiss ""Tomorrow, you promise yourself, will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today." Author James T. McCay"

- Spencer Reid "Honore de Balzac said, "Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most people of thought believe in providence.""

- Ian Doyle "Lao Tzu said, "When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.""

- Emily Prentiss "Journalist Dorothy Dix wrote, "Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets.and takes its own punishment in silence.""

- Emily Prentiss ""The secret to getting away with lying is believing with all your heart, that goes for lying to yourself even moreso than lying to another." Author Elisabeth Bear"

- Emily Prentiss "Psychoanalyst Walter Langer wrote, "People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it.""

- Jennifer Jareau "Lizette Reese wrote, "The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly truth comes by and puts them out.""

- Spencer Reid "Siddharta Buddha said, "It is not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.""

- Derek Morgan "Poet Antonio Porchia wrote, "Man when he does not grieve, hardly exists.""

- Derek Morgan "Stephen King wrote, "Sometimes human places breed inhuman monsters.""

- Aaron Hotchner ""Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false naming of real events." Adrienne Rich"

- Ashley Seaver "Agathon said, "Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.""

- David Rossi "Doménico Cieri Estrada wrote, "Bring the past only if you're going to build from it.""

- Aaron Hotchner ""The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.", Joseph Conrad"

- David Rossi ""We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch, we are going back from whence we came.", John F. Kennedy"

- Derek Morgan "Thomas Hardy wrote, "And yet to every bad there is a worse.""

- Aaron Hotchner ""What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do." Aristotle"

- David Rossi "Queen Elizabeth I said, "The past cannot be cured.""

- Jennifer Jareau ""If it is a miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a fact, proof is necessary." Mark Twain"

- Spencer Reid "Scott Adams wrote, "Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.""

- David Rossi ""Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." Franklin D. Roosevelt"

- Spencer Reid ""We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone." Orson Welles"

- David Rossi ""You may leave school, but it never leaves you." Andy Partridge"

- Spencer Reid ""Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding." Kahlil Gibran"

- Aaron Hotchner ""From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen." Edgar Allen Poe"

- Spencer Reid ""All things truly wicked start from an innocence." Ernest Hemingway"

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