Aaron Hotchner quotes from Criminal Minds

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

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

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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."

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Dostoyevsky once said, "Nothing is easier than denouncing the evildoer. Nothing more difficult than understanding him."

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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."

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[about Garcia getting shot] I don't care about protocol, I don't care whether we're working this officially or not. We don't touch any new cases until we find out who did this.

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

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

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

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

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"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

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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."

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

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

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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."