Abraham," he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend." "And I to see you dead.

Real power... comes not from hate, but from truth.

Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.

I wouldn't back away from what's right just because it's hard.

I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all mean are created free and equal.

The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird.

Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?

So I suggest you stick close, pay attention, and avoid breaking the Terrorverse's only commandment: Thou shall not be stupid.

So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.

We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.

But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.

Have you ever noticed that our maximum loss of energy occurs when we try torestrain the flow of whatever that is coming from within?

I don't want my kids to be like me. I want them to be better than me.

Knowledge resides in the user and not in the collection. It is how the user reacts to a collection of information that matters.

For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

People are afraid to own their own homes. People are afraid their own government will catch them fixing their houses.

To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.

We're all not exactly the same person online that we are in real life. I am not as happy as my Instagram makes me look. We are all heightening the positives and downplaying the negatives.

Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.

Lovers offered only what they offered and nothing more, and what they offered came with provisos: believe what you want and don't look carefully at what isn't acceptable to you.

When anything doesn't hit with a huge laugh, as comics, it feels like, Oh no, oh no, we're sinking.