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.

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.

What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.

I'd rather be nine people's favorite thing than a hundred people's ninth favorite thing.

We should teach people to value more the eternal values.

In Cuba we are building a socialist society and we could say we are on the verge of a communist society which is hard to achieve, very hard to achieve, but is a longing worth fighting for.

And whether or not we had now paid our dues, he was my blessing, and I was his.

The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.

I'm a man of convictions. If you press me about how I feel about an issue, you're going to see my convictions.

The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

Fat girls aren’t real people.

This is where the guys who copy me are planted: I do not use auto-tune, I sing. That's my advice!