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

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

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.

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.

Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth.Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate.

Power and control are an illusion, all we have are the relationship of measured things and incomplete descriptions.

Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion to the lowliest work in the lowliest way of life?

An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

When the alarm bell rings, you'd better wake up and realize that the customer expects more from you today than he did the day before. You'd better find ways to be better.

The country is not priest-ridded, but press-ridden.

No one lives like a robot. We all make choices from the moment we wake up in the morning.

I think a lot of young people don't realize the price of fame is a lot higher than they imagine.

[Evelyn Waugh] made drunkenness cute and chic, and then took to religion, simply to have the most expensive carpet of all to be sick on.