Doubt is something we all feel, but some people allow theirs to grow stronger than their confidence and faith.

Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic

People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.

I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.

When you write for children, don't write for children. Write from the child in you.

I try to be me to the utmost.

I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago.

Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time.

Don't force things to happen.

Sharing experience and building public support for the full range of rights is more powerful than legal cases.

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.